In vitro assays fail to predict in vivo effects of regulatory polymorphisms.

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A typical paradigm in the investigation of complex human disease is to assess the effects of cis-regulatory polymorphisms implicated in association studies on transcription in cellular expression systems. Evidence from in vitro transfection studies is often assumed to be sufficient evidence for the in vivo functional importance of a polymorphism in the context of human disease, even though many confounding...

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