Overview of Our Method for Detecting the Target Gene and Most Relevant Tissue
We compute the CLPP for all genes and all tissues.
(A) A simple case where we have only one tissue and want to find the target gene. We consider all genes for this GWAS risk locus and observe that gene 4 has the highest CLPP. Thus, the target gene is gene 4.
(B) We have three tissues and utilize the quantity of CLPP. Thus, the target gene is gene 4 again. Moreover, in this example, liver and blood are considered the relevant tissues for this GWAS risk locus, whereas the pancreas is not relevant.