The architecture of gene regulatory variation across multiple human tissues: the MuTHER study.

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Published in PLoS Genet on February 03, 2011

Authors

Alexandra C Nica1, Leopold Parts, Daniel Glass, James Nisbet, Amy Barrett, Magdalena Sekowska, Mary Travers, Simon Potter, Elin Grundberg, Kerrin Small, Asa K Hedman, Veronique Bataille, Jordana Tzenova Bell, Gabriela Surdulescu, Antigone S Dimas, Catherine Ingle, Frank O Nestle, Paola di Meglio, Josine L Min, Alicja Wilk, Christopher J Hammond, Neelam Hassanali, Tsun-Po Yang, Stephen B Montgomery, Steve O'Rahilly, Cecilia M Lindgren, Krina T Zondervan, Nicole Soranzo, Inês Barroso, Richard Durbin, Kourosh Ahmadi, Panos Deloukas, Mark I McCarthy, Emmanouil T Dermitzakis, Timothy D Spector, MuTHER Consortium

Author Affiliations

1: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom.

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