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Changes in gene activity may one day reveal…time of death
https://www.ScienceMag.org/news/2018/02/changes-gene-activity-may-one-day-reveal-time-death-crime-victims Discusses paper by @RodericGuigo (“Effects of death & post-mortem cold ischemia on….#transcriptomes,”
https://www.Nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02772-x). Obvious forensic interest but maybe a #privacy angle as well

Changes in gene activity may one day reveal the time of death for crime victims

Paper about what will be on eGTEx project:
https://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3969.html

Gtex Nature
https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v550/n7675/full/nature24267.html https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v550/n7675/full/nature24265.html https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v550/n7675/full/nature24041.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v550/n7675/full/nature24277.html

The impact of #SVs on…gene expression
http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/06/09/055962 24k in 147 people in GTEx pilot act as causal variants in 3-7% of ~25k eQTLs

The impact of structural variation on human gene expression

Colby Chiang, Alexandra J Scott, Joe R Davis, Emily
K Tsang, Xin Li, Yungil Kim, Farhan N Damani, Liron Ganel, GTEx Consortium, Stephen B Montgomery, Alexis Battle, Donald F Conrad, Ira M Hall
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/055962

Splicing is a prim. link betw…variation & disease by @JKPritch, @Y_Gilad &co http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6285/600.long many chrom-QTLs effect protein levels