The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) pilot analysis: Multitissue gene regulation in humans

作者：Kristin G. Ardlie, David S. DeLuca, Ayellet V. Segrè, Timothy J. Sullivan, Taylor Young, Ellen Gelfand, Casandra A. Trowbridge, Julian Maller, Taru Tukiainen, Monkol Lek, Lucas D. Ward, Pouya Kheradpour, Benjamin Iriarte, Yan Meng, Cameron D. Palmer, Tõnu Esko, Wendy Winckler, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Manolis Kellis, Daniel G. MacArthur, Gad Getz, Andrey A. Shabalin, Gen Li, Yi‐Hui Zhou, Andrew B. Nobel, Ivan Rusyn, Fred A. Wright, Tuuli Lappalainen, Pedro G. Ferreira, Halit Ongen, Manuel A. Rivas, Alexis Battle, Sara Mostafavi, Jean Monlong, Michael Sammeth, Marta Melé, Ferrán Reverter, Jakob M. Goldmann, Daphne Koller, Roderic Guigó, Mark I. McCarthy, Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, Eric R. Gamazon, Hae Kyung Im, Anuar Konkashbaev, Dan L. Nicolae, Nancy J. Cox, Timothée Flutre, Xiaoquan Wen, Matthew Stephens, Jonathan K. Pritchard, Zhidong Tu, Bin Zhang, Tao Huang, Quan Long, Luan Lin, Jialiang Yang, Jun Zhu, Jun Liu, Amanda Brown, Bernadette Mestichelli, Denee Tidwell, Edmund Lo, Mike Salvatore, Saboor Shad, Jeffrey A. Thomas, John T. Lonsdale, Michael T. Moser, Bryan M. Gillard, Ellen Karasik, Kimberly Ramsey, Christopher Choi, Barbara A. Foster, John Syron, Johnell Fleming, Harold I. Magazine, Rick Hasz, Gary Walters, Jason Bridge, Mark Miklos, Susan Sullivan, Laura K. Barker, Heather M. Traino, Maghboeba Mosavel, Laura A. Siminoff, Dana R. Valley, Daniel C. Rohrer, Scott D. Jewell, Philip A. Branton, Leslie H. Sobin, Mary E. Barcus, Liqun Qi, Jeffrey A. McLean, Pushpa Hariharan, Ki Sung Um, Shenpei Wu, David E. Tabor, Charles Shive, Anna M. Smith, Stephen A. Buia, Anita H. Undale, Karna Robinson, Nancy Roche, Kimberly M. Valentino, Angela Britton, Robin Burges, Debra Bradbury, Kenneth W. Hambright, John Seleski, Greg E. Korzeniewski, Kenyon Erickson, Yvonne Marcus, Jorge Tejada, Mehran Taherian, Chunrong Lu, Margaret J. Basile, Deborah C. Mash, Simona Volpi, Jeffery P. Struewing, Gary F. Temple, Joy T Boyer, Deborah Colantuoni, Roger Little, Susan E. Koester, Latarsha J. Carithers, Helen M. Moore, Ping Guan, Carolyn C. Compton, Sherilyn J. Sawyer, Joanne P. Demchok, Jimmie B. Vaught, Chana A. Rabiner, Nicole C. Lockhart, Kristin G. Ardlie, Gad Getz, Fred A. Wright, Manolis Kellis, Simona Volpi, Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis · 发表于：Science · 年份：2015 · DOI：10.1126/science.1262110 · 被引用次数：5720 · 研究领域：Genetic Associations and Epidemiology、Genomics and Rare Diseases、Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

Understanding the functional consequences of genetic variation, and how it affects complex human disease and quantitative traits, remains a critical challenge for biomedicine. We present an analysis of RNA sequencing data from 1641 samples across 43 tissues from 175 individuals, generated as part of the pilot phase of the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project. We describe the landscape of gene expression across tissues, catalog thousands of tissue-specific and shared regulatory expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) variants, describe complex network relationships, and identify signals from genome-wide association studies explained by eQTLs. These findings provide a systematic understanding of the cellular and biological consequences of human genetic variation and of the heterogeneity of such effects among a diverse set of human tissues.