Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Integrating transcription factor occupancy with transcriptome-wide association analysis identifies susceptibility genes in human cancers

  • Jingni He,
  • Wanqing Wen,
  • Alicia Beeghly,
  • Zhishan Chen,
  • Chen Cao,
  • Xiao-Ou Shu,
  • Wei Zheng,
  • Quan Long,
  • Xingyi Guo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34888-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Transcriptome-wide association studies can uncover genes involved in disease. Here, the authors extend the framework with a transcriptome-wide association study approach which incorporates transcription factor occupancy, adding tissue-specific mechanistic support to associations.