Integrative approaches for large-scale transcriptome-wide association studies.

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Published in Nat Genet on February 08, 2016

Authors

Alexander Gusev1,2,3, Arthur Ko4,5, Huwenbo Shi6, Gaurav Bhatia1,2,3, Wonil Chung1, Brenda W J H Penninx7, Rick Jansen7, Eco J C de Geus8, Dorret I Boomsma8, Fred A Wright9, Patrick F Sullivan10,11,12, Elina Nikkola4, Marcus Alvarez4, Mete Civelek13, Aldons J Lusis4,13, Terho Lehtimäki14, Emma Raitoharju14, Mika Kähönen15, Ilkka Seppälä14, Olli T Raitakari16,17, Johanna Kuusisto18, Markku Laakso18, Alkes L Price1,2,3, Päivi Pajukanta4,5, Bogdan Pasaniuc4,6,19

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
2: Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
3: Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
4: Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
5: Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
6: Bioinformatics Interdepartmental Program, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
7: Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
8: Department of Biological Psychology, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
9: Bioinformatics Research Center, Department of Statistics, Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
10: Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
11: Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
12: Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
13: Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
14: Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories and University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland.
15: Department of Clinical Physiology, Pirkanmaa Hospital District and University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland.
16: Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
17: Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland.
18: Department of Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland.
19: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.

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