Biological interpretation of genome-wide association studies using predicted gene functions




Pers TH, Karjalainen JM, Chan Y, Westra HJ, Wood AR, Yang J, Lui JC, Vedantam S, Gustafsson S, Esko T, Frayling T, Speliotes EK, Boehnke M, Raychaudhuri S, Fehrmann RS, Hirschhorn JN, Franke L.; Genetic Investigation of ANthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium

2015

Nature Communications

5890

6

9

2041-1723

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6890



The main challenge for gaining biological insights from genetic associations is identifying which genes and pathways explain the associations. Here we present DEPICT, an integrative tool that employs predicted gene functions to systematically prioritize the most likely causal genes at associated loci, highlight enriched pathways and identify tissues/cell types where genes from associated loci are highly expressed. DEPICT is not limited to genes with established functions and prioritizes relevant gene sets for many phenotypes.




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