Co-occurring expression and methylation QTLs allow detection of common causal variants and shared biological mechanisms
Most expression QTLs (eQTLs) co-occur with a DNA methylation QTL (meQTL), suggesting a common causal variant. Here the authors analyse DNA and RNA from blood and identify eQTL-meQTL pairs likely to share a causal variant, finding that expression and methylation are often genetically co-regulated.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2018-02-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03209-9 |