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Integration of GWAS SNPs and tissue specific expression profiling reveal discrete eQTLs for human traits in blood and brain.

Hernandez, DG; Nalls, MA; Moore, M; Chong, S; Dillman, A; Trabzuni, D; Gibbs, JR; ... Cookson, MR; + view all (2012) Integration of GWAS SNPs and tissue specific expression profiling reveal discrete eQTLs for human traits in blood and brain. Neurobiology of Disease , 47 (1) 20 - 28. 10.1016/j.nbd.2012.03.020. Green open access

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Abstract

Genome-wide association studies have nominated many genetic variants for common human traits, including diseases, but in many cases the underlying biological reason for a trait association is unknown. Subsets of genetic polymorphisms show a statistical association with transcript expression levels, and have therefore been nominated as expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL). However, many tissue and cell types have specific gene expression patterns and so it is not clear how frequently eQTLs found in one tissue type will be replicated in others. In the present study we used two appropriately powered sample series to examine the genetic control of gene expression in blood and brain. We find that while many eQTLs associated with human traits are shared between these two tissues, there are also examples where blood and brain differ, either by restricted gene expression patterns in one tissue or because of differences in how genetic variants are associated with transcript levels. These observations suggest that design of eQTL mapping experiments should consider tissue of interest for the disease or other traits studied.

Type: Article
Title: Integration of GWAS SNPs and tissue specific expression profiling reveal discrete eQTLs for human traits in blood and brain.
Location: US
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2012.03.020
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nbd.2012.03.020
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. PMCID: PMC3358430
Keywords: Blood, Brain, Gene Expression Profiling, Gene Expression Regulation, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Neurodegenerative Diseases
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Genetics and Genomic Medicine Dept
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1344947
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