Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Genetic mapping of cell type specificity for complex traits

  • Kyoko Watanabe,
  • Maša Umićević Mirkov,
  • Christiaan A. de Leeuw,
  • Martijn P. van den Heuvel,
  • Danielle Posthuma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11181-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Tissue- and cell type-specific information helps to interpret findings from genome-wide association studies. Here, the authors leverage multiple single cell expression datasets to infer cell type specificity of traits.