A statistical framework to identify cell types whose genetically regulated proportions are associated with complex diseases.

Finding disease-relevant tissues and cell types can facilitate the identification and investigation of functional genes and variants. In particular, cell type proportions can serve as potential disease predictive biomarkers. In this manuscript, we introduce a novel statistical framework, cell-type W...

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Main Authors: Wei Liu, Wenxuan Deng, Ming Chen, Zihan Dong, Biqing Zhu, Zhaolong Yu, Daiwei Tang, Maor Sauler, Chen Lin, Louise V Wain, Michael H Cho, Naftali Kaminski, Hongyu Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-07-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010825