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. 2020 Dec 3;15(12):e0242684. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242684

Table 7. Three SNPs identified with tissue specific gene expression of their associated genes and /or eQTLs, using the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) database (http://gtexportal.org).

SNP Gene Tissue NES
rs12587898 IFI27L1 Brain cortex 0.41
rs1179161 PNPLA4 Tibial nerve 0.42
Frontal cortex 0.21
Putamen 0.25
Spinal cord 0.36
Cortex -0.39
Caudate 0.18
rs645026 YEATS4 Caudate -0.45

The normalized effect size (NES) defined as the slope of the linear regression of the effect of the alternative (minor) allele relative to the reference (major) allele, based on hg19 reference genome [34].