Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Neonatal genetics of gene expression reveal potential origins of autoimmune and allergic disease risk

  • Qin Qin Huang,
  • Howard H. F. Tang,
  • Shu Mei Teo,
  • Danny Mok,
  • Scott C. Ritchie,
  • Artika P. Nath,
  • Marta Brozynska,
  • Agus Salim,
  • Andrew Bakshi,
  • Barbara J. Holt,
  • Chiea Chuen Khor,
  • Peter D. Sly,
  • Patrick G. Holt,
  • Kathryn E. Holt,
  • Michael Inouye

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17477-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Some immune-mediated diseases may originate in early childhood. The authors mapped eQTLs and response eQTLs to various stimuli in neonatal myeloid cells and T cells, and revealed their potential role in immune-mediated diseases using colocalisation and Mendelian randomisation.