The impact of cell type and context-dependent regulatory variants on human immune traits
Abstract Background The vast majority of trait-associated variants identified using genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are noncoding, and therefore assumed to impact gene regulation. However, the majority of trait-associated loci are unexplained by regulatory quantitative trait loci (QTLs). Resu...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-04-01
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Series: | Genome Biology |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-021-02334-x |