Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Identification of atrial fibrillation associated genes and functional non-coding variants

  • Antoinette F. van Ouwerkerk,
  • Fernanda M. Bosada,
  • Karel van Duijvenboden,
  • Matthew C. Hill,
  • Lindsey E. Montefiori,
  • Koen T. Scholman,
  • Jia Liu,
  • Antoine A. F. de Vries,
  • Bastiaan J. Boukens,
  • Patrick T. Ellinor,
  • Marie José T. H. Goumans,
  • Igor R. Efimov,
  • Marcelo A. Nobrega,
  • Phil Barnett,
  • James F. Martin,
  • Vincent M. Christoffels

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12721-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The majority of disease-associated genetic variants lie in non-coding regions. Here the authors generated and compiled human transcriptomic, epigenomic and chromatin conformation datasets, to identify genes associated with atrial fibrillation and functional non-coding variants.