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ArticleFrontiers in genetics2015

dcVar: a method for identifying common variants that modulate differential correlation structures in gene expression data.

Caleb A Lareau, Bill C White, Courtney G Montgomery, Brett A McKinney

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Article in Frontiers in genetics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Caleb A LareauTandy School of Computer Science - Department of Mathematics, University of Tulsa Tulsa, OK, USA ; Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
Bill C WhiteTandy School of Computer Science - Department of Mathematics, University of Tulsa Tulsa, OK, USA.
Courtney G MontgomeryArthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
Brett A McKinneyTandy School of Computer Science - Department of Mathematics, University of Tulsa Tulsa, OK, USA ; Laureate Institute for Brain Research Tulsa, OK, USA.

Funding

Tracking and Evaluation CoreU54GM104938 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR · PI PAUL G SPICER · 2013 to 2026
$68.2M
Comprehensive Genome Interrogation of African American Sarcoidosis FamiliesR01HL113326 · NHLBI · OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION · PI MONTGOMERY, COURTNEY · 2012 to 2022
$8.7M
Quantitative Analysis Core P30GM110766 · NIGMS · OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION · PI GAFFNEY, PATRICK M · 2014 to 2018
$6.1M
Molecular Mechanisms and Genetics of AutoimmunityP20GM103456 · NIGMS · OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION · PI GAFFNEY, PATRICK M · 2012 to 2013
$4.8M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL113326NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103456NIGMS NIH HHS P30 GM110766NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM104938
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Abstract

Recent studies have implicated the role of differential co-expression or correlation structure in gene expression data to help explain phenotypic differences. However, few attempts have been made to characterize the function of variants based on their role in regulating differential co-expression. Here, we describe a statistical methodology that identifies pairs of transcripts that display differential correlation structure conditioned on genotypes of variants that regulate co-expression. Additionally, we present a user-friendly, computationally efficient tool, dcVar, that can be applied to expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) or RNA-Seq datasets to infer differential co-expression variants (dcVars). We apply dcVar to the HapMap3 eQTL dataset and demonstrate the utility of this methodology at uncovering novel function of variants of interest with examples from a height genome-wide association and cancer drug resistance. We provide evidence that differential correlation structure is a valuable intermediate molecular phenotype for further characterizing the function of variants identified in GWAS and related studies.

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common varianteQTLgenome-wide association studymicroarray gene expressionmolecular phenotypeRNA-Seq

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PMCPMC4609883

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