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Cis-regulatory variants affect CHRNA5 mRNA expression in populations of African and European ancestry.

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In summary, our allele specific expression analysis in human brains of African and European ancestry confirmed the cis-regulatory effect on CHRNA5 mRNA expression and implicated variants in a 2.5 kb region upstream of CHRNA5 transcription site as the putatively functional variants.