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Fine-mapping causal tissues and genes at disease-associated loci.
Nature genetics - 1 Jan 2025
Strober Benjamin J, Zhang Martin Jinye, Amariuta Tiffany, Rossen Jordan, Price Alkes L
Abstract excerpt
Complex diseases often have distinct mechanisms spanning multiple tissues. We propose tissue-gene fine-mapping (TGFM), which infers the posterior inclusion probability (PIP) for each gene-tissue pair to mediate a disease locus by analyzing summary statistics and expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) data; TGFM also assigns PIPs to non-mediated variants. TGFM accounts for co-regulation across genes and tissues...
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