Publication
Title
Genetic variation and gene expression across multiple tissues and developmental stages in a nonhuman primate
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Abstract
By analyzing multitissue gene expression and genome-wide genetic variation data in samples from a vervet monkey pedigree, we generated a transcriptome resource and produced the first catalog of expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) in a nonhuman primate model. This catalog contains more genome-wide significant eQTLs per sample than comparable human resources and identifies sex-and age-related expression patterns. Findings include a master regulatory locus that likely has a role in immune function and a locus regulating hippocampal long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), whose expression correlates with hippocampal volume. This resource will facilitate genetic investigation of quantitative traits, including brain and behavioral phenotypes relevant to neuropsychiatric disorders.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Nature genetics. - New York, N.Y.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : 2017
ISSN
1061-4036
DOI
10.1038/NG.3959
Volume/pages
49 :12 (2017) , p. 1714-1721
ISI
000416480600010
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External links
Web of Science
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Last edited 23.01.2023
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