Journal
HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS
Volume 22, Issue 4, Pages 832-841Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/dds491
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Funding
- Wellcome Trust [076113]
- Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) [1011506, 613601, 613602, 619667, 613674]
- NHMRC [1011506]
- ARC Future Fellowship schemes [FT0991360, FT0991022]
- Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship [WT085235/Z/08/Z]
- Alzheimers Research UK [ARUK-PG2014-1, ART-RF2007-3, ART-BIG2009-1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MR/K013041/1, G0902227, G0801418B, MC_U123192748, MC_U123160651] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [MC_U123160651, MR/K013041/1, MC_U123192748, G0902227] Funding Source: UKRI
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Common diseases such as endometriosis (ED), Alzheimers disease (AD) and multiple sclerosis (MS) account for a significant proportion of the health care burden in many countries. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) for these diseases have identified a number of individual genetic variants contributing to the risk of those diseases. However, the effect size for most variants is small and collectively the known variants explain only a small proportion of the estimated heritability. We used a linear mixed model to fit all single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) simultaneously, and estimated genetic variances on the liability scale using SNPs from GWASs in unrelated individuals for these three diseases. For each of the three diseases, case and control samples were not all genotyped in the same laboratory. We demonstrate that a careful analysis can obtain robust estimates, but also that insufficient quality control (QC) of SNPs can lead to spurious results and that too stringent QC is likely to remove real genetic signals. Our estimates show that common SNPs on commercially available genotyping chips capture significant variation contributing to liability for all three diseases. The estimated proportion of total variation tagged by all SNPs was 0.26 (SE 0.04) for ED, 0.24 (SE 0.03) for AD and 0.30 (SE 0.03) for MS. Further, we partitioned the genetic variance explained into five categories by a minor allele frequency (MAF), by chromosomes and gene annotation. We provide strong evidence that a substantial proportion of variation in liability is explained by common SNPs, and thereby give insights into the genetic architecture of the diseases.
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