GTEx Consortium releases fresh insights into how DNA differences govern gene expression

(Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard) Scientists from the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project, a National Institutes of Health-funded consortium, have completed a wide-ranging set of studies documenting how small changes in DNA sequence can impact gene expression across more than four dozen tissues in the human body. These studies, released in a set of 15 papers published in Science and other journals, constitute the most comprehensive catalog to date of genetic variations that affect gene expression.
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