Chunk #12 — Materials and Methods

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Identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms regulating peripheral blood mRNA expression with genome-wide significance: an eQTL study in the Japanese population.

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To determine the potential for cross-hybridization of the probes, a BLAST search (http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi) was performed against the human genome by using the online Ensembl database. Probes with greater than 50% homology with other genomic regions were excluded.