Genetic & Genomic MedicinemedRxivPreprint
Leveraging genome-wide effects on gene expression to identify disease-critical genes with trans-genetic components
Krishna Brunton, Michelle Franc Ragsac, Tiffany Amariuta
This paper introduces EGRET, a framework that models both cis and trans-eQTLs to improve gene expression prediction and disease gene discovery, finding it outperforms existing methods in identifying disease-critical genes.
DOI 10.64898/2026.02.23.26346922