Most functional genomic resources have been based on individuals with European ancestry. Here, the authors perform DNA methylation quantitative trait locus (mQTL) analyses in 3,701 European and 2,099 East Asian individuals to identify thousands of genetic variants, a large degree of which are shared between the two populations.
- Alesha A. Hatton
- Fei-Fei Cheng
- Allan F. McRae