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Cis-acting polymorphisms affect complex traits through modifications of microRNA regulation pathways.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Arnold Matthias, Ellwanger Daniel C, Hartsperger Mara L, Pfeufer Arne, Stümpflen Volker
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become an effective tool to map genes and regions contributing to multifactorial human diseases and traits. A comparably small number of variants identified by GWAS are known to have a direct effect on protein structure whereas the majority of variants is thought to exert their moderate influences on the phenotype through regulatory changes in mRNA expression. MicroRNAs...
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