xQTL NIAGADS

Genome browser

Use the genome browser to view xQTL tracks for a particular genomic region and explore how molecular association signals overlap across QTL types, brain regions, cell types, and datasets. This view helps users visually inspect candidate loci, compare association patterns across tracks, and identify regions, tracks, or molecular targets for downstream analysis. See abbreviation details for details on cohort, context/cell, and track types. To download data for a variant, gene, or candidate region, please visit the Download page.

Show abbreviations and term definitions

Brain regions

DLPFC
Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
FC_BA_10
Frontal cortex Brodmann Area 10
FC_BA_22
Frontal cortex Brodmann Area 22
FC_BA_36
Frontal cortex Brodmann Area 36
FC_BA_44
Frontal cortex Brodmann Area 44
PC
Parietal cortex
PCC
Posterior cingulate cortex
PHG
Parahippocampal gyrus
AC
Anterior caudate

Cell types

exc
Excitatory neuron
inh
Inhibitory neuron
mic
Microglia
mon
Monocyte
oli
Oligodendrocyte
opc
Oligodendrocyte progenitor cell
ast
Astrocyte

Cohorts / studies

Knight-ADRC
Knight Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
MSBB
Mount Sinai Brain Bank
MiGA
Microglia Genomic Atlas
ROSMAP
Religious Orders Study / Memory and Aging Project
ROSMAP_snuc_DeJager
ROSMAP single-nucleus, DeJager lab
ROSMAP_snuc_Kellis
ROSMAP single-nucleus, Kellis lab
ROSMAP_snuc_mega
ROSMAP single-nucleus mega-analysis

xQTL types

eQTL
Expression QTL
haQTL
Histone acetylation QTL
mQTL
Methylation QTL
pQTL
Protein QTL
sQTL
Splicing QTL
snuc-eQTL
Single-nucleus expression QTL

Track/significance types

scfmCs95
single-context fine-mapping (95% credible set)
hmt
hierarchical multiple testing (HMT) significant

Variant types

snp
file contains only single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)
indel
file contains only insertions or deletions (INDELs)