Wednesday 29 May 2013

Cell-type, allelic and genetic signatures in the human pancreatic beta cell transcriptome

http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2013/05/28/gr.150706.112.abstract.html

The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project : Nature Genetics : Nature Publishing Group

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v45/n6/full/ng.2653.html?WT.ec_id=NG-201306

SCAN: SNP and CNV Annotation Database

http://www.scandb.org/newinterface/about.html

SCAN is a large-scale database of genetics and genomics data associated to a web-interface and a set of methods and algorithms that can be used for mining the data in it. The database contains two categories of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) annotations:

Physical-based annotation where SNPs are categorized according to their position relative to genes (intronic, inter-genic, etc.) and according to linkage disequilibrium (LD) patterns (an inter-genic SNP can be annotated to a gene if it is in LD with variation in the gene).
Functional annotation where SNPs are classified according to their effects on expression levels, i.e. whether they are expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) for that gene.