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Nature Genetics 40, 492 - 493 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ng0508-492

From gene expression to disease risk

Emmanouil T Dermitzakis1

  1. Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis is at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, CB10 1SA Cambridge, UK. e-mail: md4@sanger.ac.uk


Gene expression can be an indicator of cellular state, and studies characterizing variation in gene expression have been useful on the cellular level. Two new studies now provide the first direct demonstration of the successful use of the multidimensionality of gene expression to dissect the genetic architecture of complex diseases.

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