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cytokine: Cytokine signaling genes SNP annotation.

Description

This gene set was selected in Carbonetto and Stephens (2013) from an interrogation of 3,158 derived from 8 publicly available pathway databases.

Usage

data(cytokine)

Arguments

Format

cytokine[i] = 1 if SNP i lies within 100 kb of a gene in the "Cytokine signaling in immune system" gene set, and cytokine[i] = 0 otherwise.

References

P. Carbonetto and M. Stephens (2013). Integrated enrichment analysis of variants and pathways in genome-wide association studies indicates central role for IL-2 signaling genes in type 1 diabetes, and cytokine signaling genes in Crohn's disease. PLoS Genetics 9, e1003770.

Examples

Run this code
  # See demo.cytokine.R vignette.

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