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

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Genetics, October 2015
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Title
dcVar: a method for identifying common variants that modulate differential correlation structures in gene expression data
Published in
Frontiers in Genetics, October 2015
DOI 10.3389/fgene.2015.00312
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Authors

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

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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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 1 6%
Unknown 16 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 24%
Student > Master 3 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 18%
Student > Bachelor 2 12%
Other 1 6%
Other 3 18%
Unknown 1 6%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 35%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 24%
Computer Science 3 18%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 6%
Other 1 6%
Unknown 1 6%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 May 2016.
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#7,418,765
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Outputs from Frontiers in Genetics
#2,249
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#87,005
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Genetics
#19
of 66 outputs
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