Abundant contribution of short tandem repeats to gene expression variation in humans
Melissa Gymrek, Thomas Willems, Haoyang Zeng, Barak Markus, Mark J Daly, Alkes L Price, Jonathan Pritchard, Yaniv Erlich
The paper identifies 2,060 expression STRs (eSTRs) contributing 10%-15% of cis-heritability to gene expression, highlighting their role as regulatory variants.
Nature Genetics · Jan 1, 2016Peer-reviewedGenomics