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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 109, Issue 5, Pages 802-811Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2022.03.013
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- NIH grant NIH [GM 134005]
- NSF [DMS 1713120, 1902903]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Mathematical Sciences [1902903] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Heritability is a crucial concept in genetic studies, and LD eigenvalue regression (LDER) is an extended method that utilizes LD information to estimate genetic contributions more accurately and differentiate between polygenicity and confounding effects.
Heritability is a fundamental concept in genetic studies, measuring the genetic contribution to complex traits and bringing insights about disease mechanisms. The advance of high-throughput technologies has provided many resources for heritability estimation. Linkage disequilibrium(LD) score regression (LDSC) estimates both heritability and confounding biases, such as cryptic relatedness and population stratification, among single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) by using only summary statistics released from genome-wide association studies. However, only partial information in the LD matrix is utilized in LDSC, leading to loss in precision. In this study, we propose LD eigenvalue regression (LDER), an extension of LDSC, by making full use of the LD information. Compared to state-of-the-art heritability estimating methods, LDER provides more accurate estimates of SNP heritability and better distinguishes the inflation caused by polygenicity and confounding effects. We demonstrate the advantages of LDER both theoretically and with extensive simulations. We applied LDER to 814 complex traits from UK Biobank, and LDER identified 363 significantly heritable phenotypes, among which 97 were not identified by LDSC.
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