Mapping complex disease traits with global gene expression

W Cookson, L Liang, G Abecasis, M Moffatt… - Nature Reviews …, 2009 - nature.com
… Variation in gene expression is an important mechanism underlying susceptibility to complex
disease. The simultaneous genome-wide assay of gene expression and genetic variation …

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
… of nearby genes (cis-eGenes). Using published GWAS datasets with 39,165 single-… with
1,960 traits, we explored whole blood gene expression associations of trait-associated SNPs in …

Systematic differences in discovery of genetic effects on gene expression and complex traits

H Mostafavi, JP Spence, S Naqvi, JK Pritchard - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
… We show that even if genetic effects on complex traits were entirely mediated by gene
expression, many GWAS hits would not be discovered as significant eQTLs (even in the correct …

The landscape of genetic complexity across 5,700 gene expression traits in yeast

RB Brem, L Kruglyak - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
… Nevertheless, given the extensive genetic complexity observed … of complex cellular and
physiological traits. Indeed, many macroscopic phenotypes may have a basis in gene expression

Systems genetics approaches to understand complex traits

M Civelek, AJ Lusis - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
… These results suggest that genetic variants that alter gene expression, rather than variants
that alter protein sequences, form the primary basis of natural variation in complex traits. This …

Integrating gene expression with summary association statistics to identify genes associated with 30 complex traits

N Mancuso, H Shi, P Goddard, G Kichaev… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
genetic correlation between gene expression and a complex trait and utilize it to estimate the
genetic … into the role of gene expression in the susceptibility of complex traits and diseases. …

Leveraging DNA-methylation quantitative-trait loci to characterize the relationship between methylomic variation, gene expression, and complex traits

E Hannon, TJ Gorrie-Stone, MC Smart… - The American Journal of …, 2018 - cell.com
genetic variation associated with > 60 human traits by … 36 complex traits and 1,246 DNAm
sites. We also use SMR to characterize the relationship between DNAm and gene expression

Finding genes that underlie complex traits

AM Glazier, JH Nadeau, TJ Aitman - science, 2002 - science.org
… or intergenic sequence variation, gene expression level, and trait phenotype is less well …
of regulatory genetic variants that control the level or pattern of expression of many genes in …

Inferring relevant cell types for complex traits by using single-cell gene expression

D Calderon, A Bhaskar, DA Knowles, D Golan… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
genes, appropriately accounts for linkage disequilibrium (LD), and jointly analyzes gene
expression … of cell-specific gene expression to prioritize trait-relevant genes. Finally, we provide …

Complex trait analysis of gene expression uncovers polygenic and pleiotropic networks that modulate nervous system function

EJ Chesler, L Lu, S Shou, Y Qu, J Gu, J Wang… - Nature …, 2005 - nature.com
… We profiled gene expression using Affymetrix oligonucleotide … gene expression and
pharmacological and behavioral traits … often generated by common quantitative trait loci. We found …