GARFIELD classifies disease-relevant genomic features through integration of functional annotations with association signals

Nature Genetics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 343-353

  Iotchkova, Valentina ^a,b   Ritchie, Graham R S ^a,b   Geihs, Matthias ^a   Morganella, Sandro ^b   Min, Josine L ^c,d   Walter, Klaudia ^a   Timpson, Nicholas John ^c,d   Dunham, Ian ^b   Birney, Ewan ^b   Soranzo, Nicole ^a,e  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DNA INTEGRATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SOFTWARE; DISEASES; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

DISEASE; GENOME; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85060816168     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0322-6     Document Type: Article

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