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. 2019 Jun 19;106(10):1283–1297. doi: 10.1002/bjs.11204

Table 2.

Large-scale human expression quantitative trait locus repositories

Project name Data repository eQTL Tissue subtypes Sample size
MuTHER http://www.muther.ac.uk/Data.html Cis LCL, skin, adipose 856
GTEx https://www.gtexportal.org/home/ Cis Multiple 237
Childhood asthma studies128,129 http://csg.sph.umich.edu/liang/imputation/ Cis and trans EBVL 2642
International HapMap Project130 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE6536 Cis and trans LCL 270
Gilad/Pritchard Group http://eqtl.uchicago.edu/Home.html Cis and trans LCL, liver, brain  
Pickrell Lab http://gwas-browser.nygenome.org Cis and trans Multiple Combined sources131
Geuvadis Project https://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/geuvadis-das/ Cis LCL 465
Blood eQTL132 https://genenetwork.nl/bloodeqtlbrowser/ Cis and trans Peripheral blood 5311

eQTL, expression quantitative trait locus; MuTHER, Multiple Tissue Human Expression Resource Project; LCL, lymphoblastoid cell lines; GTEx, Genotype–Tissue Expression Project; EBVL, Epstein–Barr virus-transformed cell lines.