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ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2026

Machine learning and statistical methods for molecular quantitative trait loci.

Barbara E Engelhardt, Joshua S Weinstock, Sarah K Nyquist, Alexis Battle

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Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Barbara E EngelhardtGladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, USA. bengelhardt@stanford.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6139-7334
Joshua S WeinstockDepartment of Human Genetics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. josh.weinstock@emory.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7013-1899
Sarah K NyquistGladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, USA. sarah.nyquist@gladstone.ucsf.edu.
Alexis BattleDepartments of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. ajbattle@jhu.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An important goal of biology is to understand how genetic variation translates into molecular and then broader phenotypic variation. Quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping studies are designed to statistically test the relationship between genetic and phenotypic variation, with molecular QTLs (molQTLs) capturing genetic effects on molecular traits, such as gene expression or chromatin accessibility, as the variable phenotypes of interest. Technological advances have provided molQTL mapping methods with increased molecular phenotypes to test, as well as larger cohorts, the latter of which provides greater statistical power to associate genetic variants with these phenotypes. With these advances, statistical models - and, increasingly, machine learning methods - are being developed to improve standard molQTL mapping approaches, downstream analyses and other aspects of molQTL studies to gain additional insights into the mechanisms connecting genetic and phenotypic variation, especially in a gene regulatory context.

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