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Abstract
Most genetic effects on complex traits lie in non-coding regions, yet many show no regulatory activity in standard gene expression assays. In this issue of Cell Genomics, Arthur et al.1 add early development-like cell types and chromatin assays, showing that distal variants missed in expression assays partly explain this discrepancy.