Impact of Genetic Polymorphisms on Human Immune Cell Gene Expression

Cell

Volumn 175, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 1701-1715.e16

  Schmiedel, Benjamin J ^a   Singh, Divya ^a   Madrigal, Ariel ^a   Valdovino Gonzalez, Alan G ^a   White, Brandie M ^a   Zapardiel Gonzalo, Jose ^a   Ha, Brendan ^a   Altay, Gokmen ^a   Greenbaum, Jason A ^a   McVicker, Graham ^b   Seumois, Grégory ^a   Rao, Anjana ^a,c,d   Kronenberg, Mitchell ^a,e   Peters, Bjoern ^a,f   Vijayanand, Pandurangan ^a,f,g  

^a LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c San Diego   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DICE; eGenes; eQTLs; gene expression; genetic variants; GWAS; human immune cells; immunology; sex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 85058097343     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.10.022     Document Type: Article

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