Lung eQTLs to help reveal the molecular underpinnings of asthma.

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified loci reproducibly associated with pulmonary diseases; however, the molecular mechanism underlying these associations are largely unknown. The objectives of this study were to discover genetic variants affecting gene expression in human lung tiss...

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Main Authors: Ke Hao, Yohan Bossé, David C Nickle, Peter D Paré, Dirkje S Postma, Michel Laviolette, Andrew Sandford, Tillie L Hackett, Denise Daley, James C Hogg, W Mark Elliott, Christian Couture, Maxime Lamontagne, Corry-Anke Brandsma, Maarten van den Berge, Gerard Koppelman, Alise S Reicin, Donald W Nicholson, Vladislav Malkov, Jonathan M Derry, Christine Suver, Jeffrey A Tsou, Amit Kulkarni, Chunsheng Zhang, Rupert Vessey, Greg J Opiteck, Sean P Curtis, Wim Timens, Don D Sin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3510026?pdf=render