Cross-tissue and tissue-specific eQTLs: partitioning the heritability of a complex trait.

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Published in Am J Hum Genet on October 30, 2014

Authors

Jason M Torres1, Eric R Gamazon2, Esteban J Parra3, Jennifer E Below4, Adan Valladares-Salgado5, Niels Wacher5, Miguel Cruz5, Craig L Hanis4, Nancy J Cox6

Author Affiliations

1: Committee on Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
2: Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
3: Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada.
4: Human Genetics Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77225, USA.
5: Unidades de Investigacion Medica en Bioquimica y Unidad de Epidemiologia Clinica, Hospital de Especialidades, Centro Medico Nacional "Siglo XXI," Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico City, CP 06720, Mexico.
6: Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. Electronic address: ncox@bsd.uchicago.edu.

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