Additive, Epistatic, and Environmental Effects Through the Lens of Expression Variability QTL in a Twin Cohort

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  • Supporting Information: Figures S1-S5 and Tables S1-S4 (PDF, 1 MB)
  • Figure S1: Normality of expression data measured in LCLs. (PDF, 406 KB)
  • Figure S2: Linkage disequilibrium patterns of the genomic region surrounding evQTL at ALG11. (PDF, 544 KB)
  • Figure S3: Comparison between results of the CDF analysis for the expression difference between twin pairs in evQTL genes. (PDF, 491 KB)
  • Figure S4: Comparison between evQTLs depicted using TwinsUK samples (left) and those of the same gene-SNP pairs depicted using RNA-seq data (MONTGOMERY et al. 2010) and the 1,000 Genomes Project genotype data (THE-1000-GENOMES-PROJECT-CONSORTIUM et al. 2012) (right). (PDF, 528 KB)
  • Figure S5: Schematic shows that both additive (left) and epistatic (right) effects reate similar evQTL signals. (PDF, 429 KB)
  • Table S1: List of evQTLs detected in LCL, skin, and fat tissues. (PDF, 463 KB)
  • Table S2: (A) P-values of Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) test of pairwise comparison between groups in the RMD distribution and basic descriptive statistics for the RMD values. (B) The per-probe statistics of RMD values for larger variance groups (MZ-L and DZ-L). (PDF, 488 KB)
  • Table S3: LCL evQTLs and interacting SNPs. (PDF, 459 KB)
  • Table S4: The evQTL genes associated with complex traits and reported in the GWAS catalog (accessed in May 2013). (PDF, 475 KB)