Table 3 Characteristics of eQTL datasets.

From: Comorbidity of asthma and hypertension may be mediated by shared genetic dysregulation and drug side effects

Dataset

samples

Tissue or cell type

Cis-eQTLs

Trans-eQTLs

GTEx v6

449

44 tissues including whole blood

639825

24

Westra et al.87

5311

PBMC

397310

349

Joehanes et al.86

5257

whole blood

2072003

149592

Jansen et al.88

4896

whole blood

1212555

6913