Collapsed methylation quantitative trait loci analysis for low frequency and rare variants

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 4339-4349

  Richardson, Tom G ^a   Shihab, Hashem A ^a   Hemani, Gibran ^a   Zheng, Jie ^a   Hannon, Eilis ^b   Mill, Jonathan ^b,c   Carnero Montoro, Elena ^c   Bell, Jordana T ^c   Lyttleton, Oliver ^a   McArdle, Wendy L ^a   Ring, Susan M ^a   Rodriguez, Santiago ^a   Campbell, Colin ^d   Smith, George Davey ^a   Relton, Caroline L ^a   Timpson, Nicholas J ^a   Gaunt, Tom R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION AGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 85021154460     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddw283     Document Type: Article

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