Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Chromatin interactions and expression quantitative trait loci reveal genetic drivers of multimorbidities

  • Tayaza Fadason,
  • William Schierding,
  • Thomas Lumley,
  • Justin M. O’Sullivan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07692-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Multimorbidities of common diseases often have shared underlying predisposing factors. Here Fadason et al. study the pleiotropy of SNPs and their effects on target genes by integrating chromatin interaction and expression quantitative trait loci data to identify target genes shared between phenotypes.