Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

A molecular quantitative trait locus map for osteoarthritis

  • Julia Steinberg,
  • Lorraine Southam,
  • Theodoros I. Roumeliotis,
  • Matthew J. Clark,
  • Raveen L. Jayasuriya,
  • Diane Swift,
  • Karan M. Shah,
  • Natalie C. Butterfield,
  • Roger A. Brooks,
  • Andrew W. McCaskie,
  • J. H. Duncan Bassett,
  • Graham R. Williams,
  • Jyoti S. Choudhary,
  • J. Mark Wilkinson,
  • Eleftheria Zeggini

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21593-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Understanding the molecular effects of disease variants in relevant tissues is essential to understanding and treating disease. Here, the authors discover expression and protein quantitative trait loci in cartilage and synovium from 115 osteoarthritis patients to pinpoint genes of action and potential drug treatments.