The eQTL association analysis employed: 1) Normalized log2 quantitative gene expression measurements for the 21,800 probes (18,226 unique autosomal genes) from 726 unrelated individuals of each HapMap population assayed on the Illumina Sentrix Human-6 Expression BeadChip, 2) SNP genotypes for the unrelated individuals of each HapMap population with minor allele frequency above 5%.
