eQTL mapping using RNA-seq data, assumptions, implementations, and cautions

Friday, October 11, 2019 - 1:00pm

MSRB 3 1125

Presenter

Wei Sun, Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington

Details

Using information from allele-specific gene expression (ASE) can sub-stantially improve the power for mapping gene expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL). A few methods have been proposed towards this end. We compare these methods and demonstrate the limitations and ad-vantages of each method. We will also discuss our recent work on cell type-specific eQTL mapping to identify cell type-specific eQTLs using bulk tissue gene expression data and estimated cell type proportions.