Variants Impacting Gene Expression of Immune Cell Types Emerge From Study

Nov 15, 2018

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A team led by investigators at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology and the University of California, San Diego has described genetic interactions with gene expression in more than a dozen immune cell types for the ongoing "Database of Immune Cell Expression, Expression Quantitative Trait Locus (eQTL), and Epigenomics" (DICE) project.

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