Survey of the Heritability and Sparsity of Gene Expression Traits Across Human Tissues
Heather E Wheeler, Kaanan P Shah, Jonathon Brenner, Tzintzuni Garcia, Keston Aquino-Michaels, GTEx Consortium, Nancy J Cox, Dan L Nicolae, Hae Kyung Im
The paper surveys heritability and sparsity of gene expression traits across human tissues, finding local heritability is sparse and current sample sizes limit distal heritability analysis.
bioRxiv · Sep 8, 2016Genomics