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MiXcan: a framework for cell-type-aware transcriptome-wide association studies with an application to breast cancer.
Nature communications - 23 Jan 2023
Song Xiaoyu, Ji Jiayi, Rothstein Joseph H, Alexeeff Stacey E, Sakoda Lori C, Sistig Adriana, Achacoso Ninah, Jorgenson Eric, Whittemore Alice S, Klein Robert J, Habel Laurel A, Wang Pei, Sieh Weiva
Abstract excerpt
Human bulk tissue samples comprise multiple cell types with diverse roles in disease etiology. Conventional transcriptome-wide association study approaches predict genetically regulated gene expression at the tissue level, without considering cell-type heterogeneity, and test associations of predicted tissue-level expression with disease. Here we develop MiXcan, a cell-type-aware transcriptome-wide association...
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