@article{7faed110b13b40f1af0dd4ffacade570,
title = "Identification of context-dependent expression quantitative trait loci in whole blood",
abstract = "Genetic risk factors often localize to noncoding regions of the genome with unknown effects on disease etiology. Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) help to explain the regulatory mechanisms underlying these genetic associations. Knowledge of the context that determines the nature and strength of eQTLs may help identify cell types relevant to pathophysiology and the regulatory networks underlying disease. Here we generated peripheral blood RNA-seq data from 2,116 unrelated individuals and systematically identified context-dependent eQTLs using a hypothesis-free strategy that does not require previous knowledge of the identity of the modifiers. Of the 23,060 significant cis-regulated genes (false discovery rate (FDR) ≤ 0.05), 2,743 (12%) showed context-dependent eQTL effects. The majority of these effects were influenced by cell type composition. A set of 145 cis-eQTLs depended on type I interferon signaling. Others were modulated by specific transcription factors binding to the eQTL SNPs.",
author = "Zhernakova, {Daria V} and Patrick Deelen and Martijn Vermaat and {Van Iterson}, Maarten and {Van Galen}, Michiel and Wibowo Arindrarto and {Van't Hof}, Peter and Hailiang Mei and {Van Dijk}, Freerk and Harm-Jan Westra",
note = "Funding Information: This work was performed within the framework of the Biobank-Based Integrative Omics Studies (BIOS) consortium funded by BBMRI-NL, a research infrastructure financed by the Dutch government (NWO 184.021.007). This work is supported by a grant from the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant agreement 637640 ImmRisk) to L.F. The Rotterdam Study is funded by Erasmus Medical Center and Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw), the Research Institute for Diseases in the Elderly (RIDE), the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Sports, the European Commission (DG XII) and the municipality of Rotterdam. The authors are grateful to the study participants, the staff from the Rotterdam Study, and the participating general practitioners and pharmacists. The generation and management of GWAS genotype data for the Rotterdam Study are supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO Investments (175.010.2005.011, 911-03-012). This study is funded by the Research Institute for Diseases in the Elderly (014-93-015; RIDE2) and Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)/Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) project 050-060-810. We thank P. Arp, M. Jhamai, M. Verkerk, L. Herrera and M. Peters for their help in creating the GWAS database. Work on cell count estimation was funded by NWO 863.13.011. The LifeLines Deep cohort is made possible by grants from the Top Institute of Food and Nutrition (TiFN GH0001), an ERC advanced grant (FP/2007-2013/ERC grant 2012-322698) and a Spinoza prize (NWO SPI 92-266) to C.W. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Nature America, Inc., part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved.",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1038/ng.3737",
language = "Ongedefinieerd/onbekend",
volume = "49",
pages = "139--145",
journal = "Nature Genetics",
issn = "1061-4036",
publisher = "Nature Research",
number = "1",
}