Table 1.
Expression Quantitative Trait Locus Data for the 16 Selected Genome-Wide Expression Quantitative Trait Locus Association Studies
| Study ID | Samples (size) | Cell type | eQTL associations | exSNPs | exGenes | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HA | HapMap CEU—Caucasians (30) | LCL | 3858 | 3686 | 239 | Stranger et al. (2007) |
| HapMap CHB (45) | LCL | 4066 | 3780 | 253 | ||
| HapMap JPT (45) | LCL | 5254 | 5061 | 274 | ||
| HapMap YRI–Africans (30) | LCL | 3524 | 3283 | 306 | ||
| BR | Caucasians (193) | Brain Cortex | 624 | 545 | 209 | Myers et al. (2007) |
| AS | Childhood asthma (206) | LCL | 21116 | 12121 | 2632 | Dixon et al. (2007) |
| LV | Caucasian liver donors (427) | Liver cell | 4362 | 2527 | 3824 | Schadt et al. (2008) |
| HA2 | 30 HapMap CEU—Caucasians (30) | LCL | 4453 | 3699 | 722 | Duan et al. (2008) |
| 30 HapMap YRI (30) | LCL | 5027 | 4086 | 1659 | ||
| 3C | Caucasians (75) | LCL | 554 | 544 | 436 | Dimas et al. (2009) |
| Caucasians (75) | Fibroblast | 522 | 508 | 424 | ||
| Caucasians (75) | T cell | 546 | 540 | 429 | ||
| MO | German (1490) | Monocyte | 37694 | 29948 | 2752 | Zeller et al. (2010) |
| HRC | HapMap CEU–Caucasians (60) | LCL | 8908 | 3896 | 930 | Montgomery et al. (2010) |
| HRY | HapMap YRI–Africans (69) | LCL | 799 | 779 | 786 | Pickrell et al. (2010) |
| BR2 | Caucasians (150) | Cerebellum | 5243 | 4399 | 317 | Gibbs et al. (2010) |
| Caucasians (150) | Frontal cortex | 5512 | 5198 | 329 | ||
| Caucasians (150) | Temporal cortex | 5335 | 4059 | 385 | ||
| Caucasians (150) | Pons | 3411 | 3284 | 275 | ||
| SKN | Healthy skin individuals (57) | Skin | 5410 | 4782 | 222 | Ding et al. (2010) |
| LV2 | Liver donors (266) | Liver cell | 1170 | 1161 | 1170 | Innocenti et al. (2011) |
| IM | British (288) | Monocyte | 33740 | 28956 | 6063 | Fairfax et al. (2012) |
| British (288) | B cell | 22453 | 20333 | 5449 | ||
| MuTHER | Caucasian female twins (∼160) | LCL | 211977 | 149684 | 3945 | Grundberg et al. (2012) |
| Caucasian female twins (∼160) | Skin | 103537 | 82933 | 2495 | ||
| Caucasian female twins (∼160) | Adipose | 138885 | 109689 | 3136 | ||
| MRC | MRCA (405) and MRCE (950) | LCL | 176848 | 109763 | 1251 | Liang et al. (2013) |
| E-GEUV | 1000 Genomes—EUR (373) | LCL | 390813 | 281446 | 3048 | Lappalainen et al. (2013) |
| 1000 Genomes—YRI–Africans (89) | LCL | 19314 | 16932 | 472 |
eQTL, expression quantitative trait locus; LCL, lymphoblastoid cell line.