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Transcriptome-wide Mendelian randomization study prioritising novel tissue-dependent genes for glioma susceptibility.
Scientific reports - 27 Jan 2021
Robinson Jamie W, Martin Richard M, Tsavachidis Spiridon, Howell Amy E, Relton Caroline L, Armstrong Georgina N, Bondy Melissa, Zheng Jie, Kurian Kathreena M
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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have discovered 27 loci associated with glioma risk. Whether these loci are causally implicated in glioma risk, and how risk differs across tissues, has yet to be systematically explored. We integrated multi-tissue expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) and glioma GWAS data using a combined Mendelian randomisation (MR) and colocalisation approach. We investigated how...
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