Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Joint mouse–human phenome-wide association to test gene function and disease risk

  • Xusheng Wang,
  • Ashutosh K. Pandey,
  • Megan K. Mulligan,
  • Evan G. Williams,
  • Khyobeni Mozhui,
  • Zhengsheng Li,
  • Virginija Jovaisaite,
  • L. Darryl Quarles,
  • Zhousheng Xiao,
  • Jinsong Huang,
  • John A. Capra,
  • Zugen Chen,
  • William L. Taylor,
  • Lisa Bastarache,
  • Xinnan Niu,
  • Katherine S. Pollard,
  • Daniel C. Ciobanu,
  • Alexander O. Reznik,
  • Artem V. Tishkov,
  • Igor B. Zhulin,
  • Junmin Peng,
  • Stanley F. Nelson,
  • Joshua C. Denny,
  • Johan Auwerx,
  • Lu Lu,
  • Robert W. Williams

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10464
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Phenome-wide association is a novel method that links sequence variants to a spectrum of phenotypes and diseases. Here the authors generate detailed mouse genetic and phenome data which links their phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) of mouse to corresponding PheWAS in human.