Mapping cis- and trans-regulatory effects across multiple tissues in twins.

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Published in Nat Genet on September 02, 2012

Authors

Elin Grundberg1, Kerrin S Small, Åsa K Hedman, Alexandra C Nica, Alfonso Buil, Sarah Keildson, Jordana T Bell, Tsun-Po Yang, Eshwar Meduri, Amy Barrett, James Nisbett, Magdalena Sekowska, Alicja Wilk, So-Youn Shin, Daniel Glass, Mary Travers, Josine L Min, Sue Ring, Karen Ho, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Augustine Kong, Unnur Thorsteindottir, Chrysanthi Ainali, Antigone S Dimas, Neelam Hassanali, Catherine Ingle, David Knowles, Maria Krestyaninova, Christopher E Lowe, Paola Di Meglio, Stephen B Montgomery, Leopold Parts, Simon Potter, Gabriela Surdulescu, Loukia Tsaprouni, Sophia Tsoka, Veronique Bataille, Richard Durbin, Frank O Nestle, Stephen O'Rahilly, Nicole Soranzo, Cecilia M Lindgren, Krina T Zondervan, Kourosh R Ahmadi, Eric E Schadt, Kari Stefansson, George Davey Smith, Mark I McCarthy, Panos Deloukas, Emmanouil T Dermitzakis, Tim D Spector, Multiple Tissue Human Expression Resource (MuTHER) Consortium

Author Affiliations

1: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.

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