Figure 1.
Overview of the strategy used in this study. QTL: quantitative trait locus; cis-eQTL: QTL for gene expression and acting in cis; ASE: allele-specific expression; VeP: Variant Effect Predictor tool from the Ensembl API; NGS-SNP: variant annotation tool developed by Grant et al. 2011; GWAS: genome-wide association study; HMDP: Hybrid Mouse Diversity Panel.