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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2022

FIVEx: an interactive eQTL browser across public datasets.

Alan Kwong, Andrew P Boughton, Mukai Wang, Peter VandeHaar, Michael Boehnke, Gonçalo Abecasis, Hyun Min Kang

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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44citing papers in PubMed
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alan KwongDepartment of Biostatistics, The Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0779-7126
Andrew P BoughtonDepartment of Biostatistics, The Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0318-4912
Mukai WangDepartment of Biostatistics, The Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Peter VandeHaarDepartment of Biostatistics, The Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Michael BoehnkeDepartment of Biostatistics, The Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6442-7754
Gonçalo AbecasisDepartment of Biostatistics, The Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Hyun Min KangDepartment of Biostatistics, The Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
University of Michigan · US

Funding

The next iteration of the AMP-T2D Knowledge PortalUM1DK105554 · NIDDK · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI BOEHNKE, MICHAEL L, BURTT, NOEL P · 2020 to 2025
$18.5M
Design and Analysis of Human Gene Mapping StudiesR01HG009976 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI BOEHNKE, MICHAEL L · 2018 to 2022
$2.5M
Scalable and Translational Analysis Tools on the Cloud for Deep Integrative Omics DataU01HL137182 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ZHOU, XIANG · 2017 to 2019
$1.6M
Foundations of National Institutes of Health BOEH15AMPNHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG009976NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL137182NIDDK NIH HHS UM1 DK105554
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

summaryExpression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) characterize the associations between genetic variation and gene expression to provide insights into tissue-specific gene regulation. Interactive visualization of tissue-specific eQTLs or splice QTLs (sQTLs) can facilitate our understanding of functional variants relevant to disease-related traits. However, combining the multi-dimensional nature of eQTLs/sQTLs into a concise and informative visualization is challenging. Existing QTL visualization tools provide useful ways to summarize the unprecedented scale of transcriptomic data but are not necessarily tailored to answer questions about the functional interpretations of trait-associated variants or other variants of interest. We developed FIVEx, an interactive eQTL/sQTL browser with an intuitive interface tailored to the functional interpretation of associated variants. It features the ability to navigate seamlessly between different data views while providing relevant tissue- and locus-specific information to offer users a better understanding of population-scale multi-tissue transcriptomic profiles. Our implementation of the FIVEx browser on the EBI eQTL catalogue, encompassing 16 publicly available RNA-seq studies, provides important insights for understanding potential tissue-specific regulatory mechanisms underlying trait-associated signals. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: A FIVEx instance visualizing EBI eQTL catalogue data can be found at https://fivex.sph.umich.edu. Its source code is open source under an MIT license at https://github.com/statgen/fivex. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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Genome-Wide Association StudyQuantitative Trait LociGene Expression ProfilingSoftwareTranscriptome

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PMCPMC8723151
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