title: rSNPBase: a database for curated regulatory SNPs.
abstract: In recent years, human regulatory SNPs (rSNPs) have been widely studied. Here, we present database rSNPBase, freely available at http://rsnp.psych.ac.cn/, to provide curated rSNPs that analyses the regulatory features of all SNPs in the human genome with reference to experimentally supported regulatory elements. In contrast with previous SNP functional annotation databases, rSNPBase is characterized by several unique features. (i) To improve reliability, all SNPs in rSNPBase are annotated with reference to experimentally supported regulatory elements. (ii) rSNPBase focuses on rSNPs involved in a wide range of regulation types, including proximal and distal transcriptional regulation and post-transcriptional regulation, and identifies their potentially regulated genes. (iii) Linkage disequilibrium (LD) correlations between SNPs were analysed so that the regulatory feature is annotated to SNP-set rather than a single SNP. (iv) rSNPBase provides the spatio-temporal labels and experimental eQTL labels for SNPs. In summary, rSNPBase provides more reliable, comprehensive and user-friendly regulatory annotations on rSNPs and will assist researchers in selecting candidate SNPs for further genetic studies and in exploring causal SNPs for in-depth molecular mechanisms of complex phenotypes.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing, 100049, China.
authors.forename: Liyuan
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Suhua
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Kunlin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D015810:Linkage Disequilibrium; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000378:metabolism; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D050436:Regulatory Elements, Transcriptional; D012045:Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D038621:Regulatory Sequences, Ribonucleic Acid
chemical_list: D035683:MicroRNAs; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins; D038621:Regulatory Sequences, Ribonucleic Acid