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kate
  Wed Sep 27 16:32:39 2017 -0700
Polish table and field descriptions. refs #15646

diff --git src/hg/lib/gtexEqtl.as src/hg/lib/gtexEqtl.as
index 84e392f..e5b3bb4 100644
--- src/hg/lib/gtexEqtl.as
+++ src/hg/lib/gtexEqtl.as
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 table gtexEqtl
-"BED 9+ of eQTLs (variants affecting gene expression) with a target gene, effect size, p-value, and causal probability metric"
+"BED 9+ of expression Quantitative Trait Loci (eQTL). These are variants affecting gene expression"
     (
     string chrom;      "Reference sequence chromosome or scaffold"
     uint   chromStart; "Start position in chromosome"
     uint   chromEnd;   "End position in chromosome"
-    string name;       "Name of variant (rsID or GTEx identifier if none)"
+    string name;       "Variant (rsID or GTEx identifier if none)"
     uint   score;      "Score from 0-1000"
     char[1] strand;    "."
     uint thickStart;   "Start position"
     uint thickEnd;     "End position"
-    uint reserved;     "R,G,B color: red for up-regulated, blue for down. Bright for high, grayed for low."
-    string gene;       "Name of target gene"
+    uint reserved;     "R,G,B color: red +effect, blue -effect. Bright for high, pale for lower (cutoff effectSize 2.0 RPKM)."
+    string gene;       "Target gene"
     int distance;      "Distance from TSS"
-    float effectSize;  "Effect size (FPKM). Regression slope calculated using quantile normalized expression"
+    float effectSize;  "Effect size (FPKM)"
     float pValue;      "Nominal p-value"
     float causalProb;  "Probability variant is in 95% credible set"
     )