Open Targets Genetics Documentation
  • Introduction
  • Release notes
  • Change log
  • FAQs
  • Future Plans
  • Licence
  • Citation
  • Terms of Use
  • Our Approach
    • Overview
    • Assigning Variants to Disease (V2D)
    • Assigning Variants to Genes (V2G)
    • Prioritising causal genes at GWAS loci (L2G)
    • Colocalisation analysis
    • Data Sources
      • Genetic Variation
        • FinnGen
      • Molecular Traits
        • Splice QTLs
      • Others
  • How To Use Open Targets Genetics starting with
    • A Gene
    • A Study (Trait)
    • Multiple Studies
    • A Variant
    • Introducing the Locus Plot
  • Technical Pipeline
    • What Technologies Do We Use?
    • GitHub Repositories
    • Pipeline schematic overview
  • Meetings
    • ESHG Workshop 2019
    • ASHG Workshop 2018
  • Data access
    • Data Download
    • GraphQL API
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  • You Will See
  • Gene Meta-data
  • Associated Studies
  1. How To Use Open Targets Genetics starting with

A Gene

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Last updated 5 years ago

Search by a Gene to:

  1. Identify loci which functionally implicate a gene

  2. Link out to detailed information on the gene and drugs targeting it

  3. Identify which traits this gene may play a role in, based on variants to which it is assigned

You Will See

Gene Meta-data

Details of the gene, including link-outs to interrogate the gene in the and through other external providers, such as , and . Click through the link to load the Locus View for the gene, with the queried gene pre-selected.

Associated Studies

Table summarises published studies and UKB phenotypes with which the queried gene is connected in the Open Targets Genetics pipeline. A gene is connected to a trait in cases where the gene has been functionally assigned to a locus associated with this trait, either via the VLV_LVL​ or an assigned proxy VTV_TVT​. Each GWAS Study is linked out via PubMed. UK Biobank traits (Neale et al) do not have a PubMed record. Clicking a Study ID will redirect to the study's page, details of which can be seen here. The table can be sorted by column, filtered by column using the drop-downs, and downloaded in flat and nested formats.

To identify loci and functional variants through which the gene is implicated in a chosen trait, click through to view the Locus Plot. The queried gene, the corresponding VLV_LVL​ through which it is associated with the chosen trait, and the VTV_TVT​ through which this lead functionally implicates the gene, will be pre-selected when the plot is loaded.

Open Targets Platform
Ensembl
GTEx
Gene Cards