Query details of samples by tissue name — xQTLquery_sampleByTissue • xQTLbiolinks

Query details of samples by tissue name

xQTLquery_sampleByTissue(
  tissueSiteDetail = "Liver",
  dataType = "RNASEQ",
  recordPerChunk = 200,
  pathologyNotesCategories = FALSE
)

Arguments

tissueSiteDetail: (character) details of tissues in GTEx can be listed using tissueSiteDetailGTExv8 or tissueSiteDetailGTExv7
dataType: A character string. Options: "RNASEQ" (default), "WGS", "WES", "OMNI", "EXCLUDE".
recordPerChunk: (integer) number of records fetched per request (default: 200).
pathologyNotesCategories: Default: pathologyNotes info is ignored.

Value

returen a data.table object of samples' information

Examples

sampleInfo <- xQTLquery_sampleByTissue("Brain - Amygdala" )
sampleInfo <- xQTLquery_sampleByTissue(tissueSiteDetail="Liver", pathologyNotesCategories=TRUE)