Exploring regulation in tissues with eQTL networks

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 37, 2017, Pages E7841-E7850

  Fagny, Maud ^a,b   Paulson, Joseph N ^a,b   Kuijjer, Marieke L ^a,b   Sonawane, Abhijeet R ^c   Chen, Cho Yi ^a,b   Lopes Ramos, Camila M ^a,b   Glass, Kimberly ^c   Quackenbush, John ^a,b   Platig, John ^a,b  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipartite networks; eQTL; Expression quantitative trait locus; GTEx; GWAS

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED LEUKOCYTE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; MUCIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AORTA; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHROMATIN; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETICS; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; FIBROBLAST CELL LINE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TISSUES; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85029458073     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1707375114     Document Type: Article

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