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BIOINFORMATICS
卷 34, 期 18, 页码 3145-3150出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty318
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [31771401]
- Hong Kong Health and Medical Research Fund [02132236]
- Hong Kong Research Grants Council [GRF 17128515, 17124017, 17121414 HKU 776412M, N_HKU736/14]
- Hong Kong Research Grants Council Theme-Based Research Scheme [T12-705/11]
- Hong Kong Theme-based Research Scheme [T12C-714/14-R]
Motivation: Recently many studies showed single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) affect gene expression and contribute to development of complex traits/diseases in a tissue context-dependent manner. However, little is known about haplotype's influence on gene expression and complex traits, which reflects the interaction effect between SNPs. Results: In the present study, we firstly proposed a regulatory region guided eQTL haplotype association analysis approach, and then systematically investigate the expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) haplotypes in 20 different tissues by the approach. The approach has a powerful design of reducing computational burden by the utilization of regulatory predictions for candidate SNP selection and multiple testing corrections on non-independent haplotypes. The application results in multiple tissues showed that haplotype-based eQTLs not only increased the number of eQTL genes in a tissue specific manner, but were also enriched in loci that associated with complex traits in a tissue-matched manner. In addition, we found that tag SNPs of eQTL haplotypes from whole blood were selectively enriched in certain combination of regulatory elements (e.g. promoters and enhancers) according to predicted chromatin states. In summary, this eQTL haplotype detection approach, together with the application results, shed insights into synergistic effect of sequence variants on gene expression and their susceptibility to complex diseases. Availability and implementation: The executable application 'eHaplo' is implemented in Java and is publicly available at http://grass.cgs.hku.hk/limx/ehaplo/. Contact: jonsonfox@gmail.com, limiaoxin@mail.sysu.edu.cn Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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