Table 2.
Large-scale human expression quantitative trait locus repositories
Project name | Data repository | eQTL | Tissue subtypes | Sample size |
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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.