Estimating the causal tissues for complex traits and diseases

Nature Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 1676-1683

  Ongen, Halit ^a,b,c   Brown, Andrew A ^a,b,c   Delaneau, Olivier ^a,b,c   Panousis, Nikolaos I ^a,b,c   Nica, Alexandra C ^a   Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ARTICLE; CAUSALITY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TESTIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TISSUES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 85035746107     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3981     Document Type: Article

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