Using an atlas of gene regulation across 44 human tissues to inform complex disease- and trait-associated variation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 956-967

  Gamazon, Eric R ^a,b   Segrè, Ayellet V ^c,d   Van De Bunt, Martijn ^e,f   Wen, Xiaoquan ^g   Xi, Hualin S ^h   Hormozdiari, Farhad ^i,j   Ongen, Halit ^k,l,m   Konkashbaev, Anuar ^a   Derks, Eske M ⁿ   Aguet, François ^c   Quan, Jie ^h   Nicolae, Dan L ^o   Eskin, Eleazar ⁱ   Kellis, Manolis ^c,p   Getz, Gad ^c,q   McCarthy, Mark I ^e,f   Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T ^k,l,m   Cox, Nancy J ^a   Ardlie, Kristin G ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^h PFIZER INC   (United States)

ⁱ University of California   (United States)

^j HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^m SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

ⁿ QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^p MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^q MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BIOBANK; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPRESSION QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; UNITED KINGDOM; WAIST HIP RATIO; DISEASES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; META ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 85049149885     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0154-4     Document Type: Article

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