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Calling genotypes from public RNA-sequencing data enables
identification of genetic variants that affect gene-expression levels

Patrick Deelen†,
Daria V Zhernakova†,
Mark de Haan,
Marijke van der Sijde,
Marc Jan Bonder,
Juha Karjalainen,
K Joeri van der Velde,
Kristin M Abbott,
Jingyuan Fu,
Cisca Wijmenga,
Richard J Sinke,
Morris A Swertz† and
Lude Franke†

Genotypes from…#RNAseq…enables identification of…variants, related to ASE & eQTLs
https://GenomeMedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13073-015-0152-4 Validation w/ #Geuvadis

Genotypes from…#RNAseq…enables identification of…variants, related to ASE & eQTLs
https://GenomeMedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13073-015-0152-4 Validation w/ #Geuvadis

Canonical genetic signatures [across 132 structures] of the adult human #brain [in 6 individuals]
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.4171.html HT @ozgunharmanci

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We applied a correlation-based metric called differential stability to assess reproducibility of gene expression patterning across 132 structures in six individual brains, revealing mesoscale genetic organization. The genes with the highest differential stability are highly biologically relevant, with enrichment for brain-related annotations, disease associations, drug targets and literature citations.
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#SingleCell chromatin accessibility
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v523/n7561/full/nature14590.html >1.6k ATAC-seq expts; many on @ENCODE_NIH cell lines H1, GM12878 & K562

Cost of #Reproducibility http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002165 Estimated at almost $30B for life science research, based on 50% of studies not replicating

Bioinformatics (2015) 31 (1): 33-39. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu615

Making novel proteins from #pseudogenes
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/1/33.short Outcomes in 16 cases where one gets stable & functional translated products

http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/1/33.short

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3162.html

Gene-gene and gene-environment interactions detected by transcriptome sequence analysis in twins

Alfonso Buil,
Andrew Anand Brown,
Tuuli Lappalainen,
Ana Viñuela,
Matthew N Davies,
Hou-Feng Zheng,
J Brent Richards,
Daniel Glass,
Kerrin S Small,
Richard Durbin,
Timothy D Spector
& Emmanouil T Dermitzakis

QT:"We show that many translocation-prone pairs of regions genome-wide, including the cancer translocation partners BCR-ABL and MYC-IGH, display elevated Hi-C contact frequencies in normal human cells."

Overlap of Hi-C & gene fusions

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0044196