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The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

Journal name:
Nature Genetics
Volume:
45,
Pages:
580–585
Year published:
DOI:
doi:10.1038/ng.2653
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Abstract

Genome-wide association studies have identified thousands of loci for common diseases, but, for the majority of these, the mechanisms underlying disease susceptibility remain unknown. Most associated variants are not correlated with protein-coding changes, suggesting that polymorphisms in regulatory regions probably contribute to many disease phenotypes. Here we describe the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project, which will establish a resource database and associated tissue bank for the scientific community to study the relationship between genetic variation and gene expression in human tissues.

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Affiliations

  1. National Disease Research Interchange, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

    • John Lonsdale,
    • Jeffrey Thomas,
    • Mike Salvatore,
    • Rebecca Phillips,
    • Edmund Lo &
    • Saboor Shad

  2. Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

    • Richard Hasz

  3. LifeNet Health, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.

    • Gary Walters

  4. Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

    • Fernando Garcia

  5. Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

    • Nancy Young

  6. Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA.

    • Barbara Foster,
    • Mike Moser,
    • Ellen Karasik,
    • Bryan Gillard &
    • Kimberley Ramsey

  7. Upstate New York Transplant Service, Buffalo, New York, USA.

    • Susan Sullivan &
    • Jason Bridge

  8. Science Care, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

    • Harold Magazine,
    • John Syron &
    • Johnelle Fleming

  9. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.

    • Laura Siminoff,
    • Heather Traino,
    • Maghboeba Mosavel &
    • Laura Barker

  10. Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.

    • Scott Jewell,
    • Dan Rohrer,
    • Dan Maxim,
    • Dana Filkins,
    • Philip Harbach,
    • Eddie Cortadillo,
    • Bree Berghuis,
    • Lisa Turner,
    • Eric Hudson &
    • Kristin Feenstra

  11. SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Frederick, Maryland, USA.

    • Leslie Sobin,
    • James Robb,
    • Greg Korzeniewski,
    • Charles Shive,
    • David Tabor,
    • Liqun Qi,
    • Kevin Groch,
    • Sreenath Nampally,
    • Steve Buia,
    • Angela Zimmerman,
    • Anna Smith,
    • Robin Burges,
    • Karna Robinson,
    • Kim Valentino,
    • Deborah Bradbury,
    • Mark Cosentino,
    • Norma Diaz-Mayoral,
    • Mary Kennedy,
    • Theresa Engel &
    • Penelope Williams

  12. Sapient Government Services, Arlington, Virginia, USA.

    • Phillip Branton &
    • Kenyon Erickson

  13. The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

    • Kristin Ardlie,
    • Wendy Winckler,
    • Gad Getz,
    • David DeLuca,
    • Daniel MacArthur,
    • Manolis Kellis,
    • Alexander Thomson,
    • Taylor Young,
    • Ellen Gelfand,
    • Molly Donovan,
    • Yan Meng &
    • George Grant

  14. Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

    • Gad Getz &
    • Daniel MacArthur

  15. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

    • Manolis Kellis

  16. University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.

    • Deborah Mash,
    • Yvonne Marcus &
    • Margaret Basile

  17. Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

    • Jun Liu

  18. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.

    • Jun Zhu &
    • Zhidong Tu

  19. University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

    • Nancy J Cox,
    • Dan L Nicolae,
    • Eric R Gamazon,
    • Hae Kyung Im,
    • Anuar Konkashbaev,
    • Jonathan Pritchard,
    • Matthew Stevens,
    • Timothèe Flutre &
    • Xiaoquan Wen

  20. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

    • Jonathan Pritchard

  21. University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

    • Emmanouil T Dermitzakis &
    • Tuuli Lappalainen

  22. Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain.

    • Roderic Guigo,
    • Jean Monlong &
    • Michael Sammeth

  23. Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA.

    • Daphne Koller,
    • Alexis Battle &
    • Sara Mostafavi

  24. Oxford University, Oxford, UK.

    • Mark McCarthy,
    • Manual Rivas &
    • Julian Maller

  25. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

    • Ivan Rusyn,
    • Andrew Nobel,
    • Fred Wright &
    • Andrey Shabalin

  26. National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

    • Mike Feolo,
    • Nataliya Sharopova,
    • Anne Sturcke,
    • Justin Paschal,
    • James M Anderson &
    • Elizabeth L Wilder

  27. Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, Office of Strategic Coordination (Common Fund), Office of the Director, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

    • Leslie K Derr

  28. National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

    • Eric D Green,
    • Jeffery P Struewing,
    • Gary Temple,
    • Simona Volpi,
    • Joy T Boyer,
    • Elizabeth J Thomson,
    • Mark S Guyer,
    • Cathy Ng,
    • Assya Abdallah &
    • Deborah Colantuoni

  29. National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

    • Thomas R Insel,
    • Susan E Koester,
    • A Roger Little,
    • Patrick K Bender,
    • Thomas Lehner &
    • Yin Yao

  30. US National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

    • Carolyn C Compton,
    • Jimmie B Vaught,
    • Sherilyn Sawyer,
    • Nicole C Lockhart,
    • Joanne Demchok &
    • Helen F Moore

Contributions

Biospecimen and data collection, processing, quality control, storage and pathological review. caHUB-BSS: J. Lonsdale, J.T., M. Salvatore, R.P., E.L., S. Shad, R.H., G.W., F.G., N.Y., B.F., M. Moser, E.K., B.G., K. Ramsey, S. Sullivan, J.B., H.M., J.S. and J.F. caHUB-ELSI study: L. Siminoff, H.T., M. Mosavel and L.B. caHUB-CBR: S.J., D.R., D. Maxim, D.F., P.H., E.C., B.B., L.T., E.H. and K.F. caHUB-PRC: L. Sobin, J.R. and P.B. caHUB-CDR: G.K., C.S., D.T., L.Q., K.G. and S.N. caHUB–Operations Management: S.B., A.Z., A. Smith, R.B., K. Robinson, K.V., D.B., M.C., N.D.-M., M. Kennedy, T.E., P.W. and K.E. Laboratory analysis, data analysis and study coordination. K.A., W.W., G. Getz, D.D., D. MacArthur, M. Kellis, A.T., T.Y., E. Gelfand, M.D., Y. Meng and G. Grant. Brain bank operations. D. Mash, Y. Marcus and M.B. Statistical methods development and data analysis. J. Liu, J.Z., Z.T., E.T.D., T. Lappalainen, R.G., J. Monlong, M. Sammeth, D.K., A.B., S.M., M. McCarthy, M.R., J. Maller, I.R., A.N., F.W., A. Shabalin, N.J.C., D.L.N., E.R.G., H.K.I., A.K., J. Pritchard, M. Stevens, T.F. and X.W. Database. M.F., N.S., A. Sturcke and J. Paschal. Program management. J.M.A., E.L.W., L.K.D., E.D.G., J.P.S., G.T., S.V., J.T.B., E.J.T., M.S.G., C.N., A.A., D.C., T.R.I., S.E.K., A.R.L., P.K.B., T. Lehner, Y.Y., C.C.C., J.B.V., S. Sawyer, N.C.L., J.D. and H.F.M.

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