Single-cell RNA sequencing identifies celltype-specific cis-eQTLs and co-expression QTLs

Nature Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 493-497

  Van Der Wijst, Monique G P ^a   Brugge, Harm ^a   De Vries, Dylan H ^a   Deelen, Patrick ^a   Swertz, Morris A ^a   Franke, Lude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; EXPRESSION QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MONOCYTE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; EPISTASIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; METABOLISM; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85044715062     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0089-9     Document Type: Article

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