Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations

HJ Westra, MJ Peters, T Esko, H Yaghootkar… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
trans-eQTL analysis focused on 4,542 SNPs that have been implicated in complex disease
… In the discovery data set, we detected trans eQTLs for 1,513 significant trans eQTLs that …

[HTML][HTML] Causal relationship and shared genetic loci between psoriasis and type 2 diabetes through trans-disease meta-analysis

MT Patrick, PE Stuart, H Zhang, Q Zhao, X Yin… - Journal of Investigative …, 2021 - Elsevier
… mechanisms these conditions have in common. In addition to … relationships and identified
the putative mechanisms involving … disease association studies. Crucially, only one of the loci …

[PDF][PDF] Novel aggregative trans-eqtl association analysis of known genetic variants detect trait-specific target gene-sets

D Dutta, Y He, A Saha, M Arvanitis, A Battle… - medRxiv, 2020 - alorchhota.github.io
… Further we show an example that the identified trans-associations can be explained using
Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations. …

Genetics of circulating inflammatory proteins identifies drivers of immune-mediated disease risk and therapeutic targets

JH Zhao, D Stacey, N Eriksson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
… are known to be therapeutically important and new putative … levels and across local and
systemic sites. Together, these data … Our pQTL study identified twice as many trans associations

Brain expression quantitative trait locus and network analyses reveal downstream effects and putative drivers for brain-related diseases

N de Klein, EA Tsai, M Vochteloo, D Baird, Y Huang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
… in which eQTLs operate and systematically conducted MR … to identify independent
associations in each cis-eQTL locus. … on 228,819 variants with a known interpretation. This set …

PancanQTL: systematic identification of cis-eQTLs and trans-eQTLs in 33 cancer types

J Gong, S Mei, C Liu, Y Xiang, Y Ye… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… and identified 22 212 eQTLs associated with patient overall survival. Furthermore, we linked
the eQTLs to genome-wide association … (SNPs), the most common type of human genetic …

Aggregative trans-eQTL analysis detects trait-specific target gene sets in whole blood

D Dutta, Y He, A Saha, M Arvanitis, A Battle… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
identify gene sets which have significant evidence of trans-association with groups of known
… To systematically evaluate this, we performed a differential expression enrichment analysis …

Dissecting the genetics of the human transcriptome identifies novel trait-related trans-eQTLs and corroborates the regulatory relevance of non-protein coding loci

H Kirsten, H Al-Hasani, L Holdt, A Gross… - Human molecular …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
… -transcript associations, we analyse relations of eQTLs to … small effects which are common
for trans-eQTLs. Exploiting the … detail, we found systematic differences between pseudogene …

Dynamic role of trans regulation of gene expression in relation to complex traits

C Yao, R Joehanes, AD Johnson, T Huan, C Liu… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
… A 100% proportion of mediation effect indicated that the entire association between an
eQTL and expression of a trans-eGene (direct effect) is explained by effects of the …

Unraveling the polygenic architecture of complex traits using blood eQTL metaanalysis

U Võsa, A Claringbould, HJ Westra, MJ Bonder… - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
… to identify putative key driver genes that contribute to disease 8 . … Here, we systematically
investigate trans-eQTLs as well as … also identified eQTS associations for genes that are known