Genetic variant effects on gene expression in human pancreatic islets and their implications for T2D

oleh: Ana Viñuela, Arushi Varshney, Martijn van de Bunt, Rashmi B. Prasad, Olof Asplund, Amanda Bennett, Michael Boehnke, Andrew A. Brown, Michael R. Erdos, João Fadista, Ola Hansson, Gad Hatem, Cédric Howald, Apoorva K. Iyengar, Paul Johnson, Ulrika Krus, Patrick E. MacDonald, Anubha Mahajan, Jocelyn E. Manning Fox, Narisu Narisu, Vibe Nylander, Peter Orchard, Nikolay Oskolkov, Nikolaos I. Panousis, Anthony Payne, Michael L. Stitzel, Swarooparani Vadlamudi, Ryan Welch, Francis S. Collins, Karen L. Mohlke, Anna L. Gloyn, Laura J. Scott, Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, Leif Groop, Stephen C. J. Parker, Mark I. McCarthy

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2020-09-01

Deskripsi

Mechanistic inference following GWAS is hampered by the lack of tissue-specific transcriptomic resources. Here the authors combine genetic variants predisposing to type 2 diabetes with human pancreatic islet RNA-seq data. They identify 7741 islet expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), providing a resource for functional interpretation of association signals mapping to non-coding sequence.