Functional dissection of inherited non-coding variation influencing multiple myeloma risk

oleh: Ram Ajore, Abhishek Niroula, Maroulio Pertesi, Caterina Cafaro, Malte Thodberg, Molly Went, Erik L. Bao, Laura Duran-Lozano, Aitzkoa Lopez de Lapuente Portilla, Thorunn Olafsdottir, Nerea Ugidos-Damboriena, Olafur Magnusson, Mehmet Samur, Caleb A. Lareau, Gisli H. Halldorsson, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Gudmundur L. Norddahl, Kristbjorg Gunnarsdottir, Asta Försti, Hartmut Goldschmidt, Kari Hemminki, Frits van Rhee, Scott Kimber, Adam S. Sperling, Martin Kaiser, Kenneth Anderson, Ingileif Jonsdottir, Nikhil Munshi, Thorunn Rafnar, Anders Waage, Niels Weinhold, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Vijay G. Sankaran, Kari Stefansson, Richard Houlston, Björn Nilsson

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2022-01-01

Deskripsi

The causality and functional roles of disease-associated variants revealed by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are mostly unexplored. Here the authors identify putative causal variants in multiple myeloma and find their association with gene expression and chromatin accessibility.