The genetic and mechanistic basis for variation in gene regulation

AA Pai, JK Pritchard, Y Gilad - PLoS genetics, 2015 - journals.plos.org
… to interpret how genetic variants alter gene regulation. We do not know how to “read the
genome” and predict gene regulatory outputs. Our understanding of regulatory mechanisms and …

The influence of genetic variation on gene expression

RBH Williams, EKF Chan, MJ Cowley… - Genome …, 2007 - genome.cshlp.org
genetic variation influences gene expression, focusing upon inter-individual variation in gene
… they are designed to tell us about genetic variation, and what are their limitations from both …

Passive and active DNA methylation and the interplay with genetic variation in gene regulation

M Gutierrez-Arcelus, T Lappalainen, SB Montgomery… - elife, 2013 - elifesciences.org
… to or act in gene regulation. We show that unlike genetic regulatory variation, DNA methylation
… Finally, inferred mechanistic relationships using genetic variation as well as correlations …

Functional implications of genetic variation in non-coding DNA for disease susceptibility and gene regulation

JC Knight - Clinical Science, 2003 - portlandpress.com
… The candidate gene approach has been widely used to analyse possible associations
between genetic variants and disease outcome, with selection of genes based on a priori …

Population genetic variation in genome-wide gene expression

JP Townsend, D Cavalieri… - Molecular Biology and …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
… to adaptive evolution of regulatory compared with structural genetic variation has diminished,
despite the discovery of examples of interspecies variation in gene expression level …

The effects of genetic variation on gene expression dynamics during development

M Francesconi, B Lehner - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
… and distant genetic variation on the dynamics of gene expression throughout an extensive
time period. Moreover, the approach developed here should facilitate the genetic dissection of …

Tissue-specific effects of genetic and epigenetic variation on gene regulation and splicing

M Gutierrez-Arcelus, H Ongen, T Lappalainen… - … genetics, 2015 - journals.plos.org
… In conclusion, genetic variants affecting gene expression and DNA methylation levels
often overlaps with functional genomic elements. This also indicates that the DNA sequence …

Unraveling the regulatory mechanisms underlying tissue-dependent genetic variation of gene expression

J Fu, MGM Wolfs, P Deelen, HJ Westra… - … genetics, 2012 - journals.plos.org
… by which genetic variants can mediate tissue-dependent gene expression. We observed
that the genetic variants that associated with complex traits are more likely to affect gene

Regulation of major histocompatibility complex class II gene expression, genetic variation and disease

L Handunnetthi, SV Ramagopalan, GC Ebers… - Genes & …, 2010 - nature.com
… Selection involving such non-coding DNA sequences important to gene regulation is … We
have recently shown how genetic variation defines a functional VDRE in the proximal promoter …

Population genetic variation in gene expression is associated with phenotypic variation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

JC Fay, HL McCullough, PD Sniegowski, MB Eisen - Genome biology, 2004 - Springer
… An important question concerning the genetic basis and evolution of complex traits is the
relative contribution of gene regulation versus protein structure. If gene-expression differences …