Impact of admixture and ancestry on eQTL analysis and GWAS colocalization in GTEx

Impact of admixture and ancestry on eQTL analysis and GWAS colocalization in GTEx

Abstract Background Population structure among study subjects may confound genetic association studies, and lack of proper correction can lead to spurious findings. The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project largely contains individuals of European ancestry, but the v8 release also includes up to...

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Main Authors: Nicole R. Gay, Michael Gloudemans, Margaret L. Antonio, Nathan S. Abell, Brunilda Balliu, YoSon Park, Alicia R. Martin, Shaila Musharoff, Abhiram S. Rao, François Aguet, Alvaro N. Barbeira, Rodrigo Bonazzola, Farhad Hormozdiari, GTEx Consortium, Kristin G. Ardlie, Christopher D. Brown, Hae Kyung Im, Tuuli Lappalainen, Xiaoquan Wen, Stephen B. Montgomery
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-09-01
Series:Genome Biology
Subjects:
Local ancestry
Population structure
Admixture
eQTL
Colocalization
GTEx
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-020-02113-0

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