Tag: eQTL

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Identification of sixty three multigenic modules involved in susceptibility to inflammatory bowel disease

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of inflammatory conditions of the colon and small intestine. Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are the principal types of inflammatory bowel disease.  IBD was virtually unheard of in the early nineteen hundreds. Since then it’s incidence (as well as that of a series of other inflammatory diseases including asthma) has dramatically […]

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Better eQTLs for integrative functional genomics? – discussion on SMR/HEIDI

This is a follow-up post to the mini-review of the work of Zhu et al. [1] and is a reaction to tweet from @JosephPowell_UQ 🙂 In short, in Zhu et al. [1] have used eQTL results from peripheral blood to answer the question of potential biological function affected by genetic variation associated with five complex trait. Using such eQTLs may […]

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