Brain expression genome-wide association study (eGWAS) identifies human disease-associated variants.

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Published in PLoS Genet on June 07, 2012

Authors

Fanggeng Zou1, High Seng Chai, Curtis S Younkin, Mariet Allen, Julia Crook, V Shane Pankratz, Minerva M Carrasquillo, Christopher N Rowley, Asha A Nair, Sumit Middha, Sooraj Maharjan, Thuy Nguyen, Li Ma, Kimberly G Malphrus, Ryan Palusak, Sarah Lincoln, Gina Bisceglio, Constantin Georgescu, Naomi Kouri, Christopher P Kolbert, Jin Jen, Jonathan L Haines, Richard Mayeux, Margaret A Pericak-Vance, Lindsay A Farrer, Gerard D Schellenberg, Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium, Ronald C Petersen, Neill R Graff-Radford, Dennis W Dickson, Steven G Younkin, Nilüfer Ertekin-Taner

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

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