The positional candidate genes were ranked based on their predicted association with seven functional terms related to the Bphs phenotype: Cardiac, G-protein coupled receptor, Histamine, Pertussis toxin, Type I hypersensitivity, Vascular Permeability, and ER/EMC/ERAD. Gene Weaver74 (link) was used to identify genes annotated with each term. Each term was entered the Gene Weaver homepage (https://geneweaver.org) and search restricted to human, rat, and mouse genes, and to curated lists only. Mouse homologs for each gene were retrieved using the batch query tool in MGI (http://www.informatics.jax.org/batch_data.shtml). In addition, using the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and PubMed, additional gene expression data sets were retrieved for each phenotype term. Final gene lists consisted of the unique set of genes associated with each process term.
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