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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
卷 105, 期 2, 页码 351-363出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.06.006
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- UK Medical Research Council [MR/N015746/1, MR/M021475/1]
- US National Institutes of Health [AG046938]
- European Research Council under the European Union [602768, 295366]
- Medical Research Council Professorship award [G19/2]
- MRC/IoPPN Excellence Award
- GSTT Charity [TR130505]
- Maudsley Charity [980]
- MRC [G0901245, MR/N015746/1, MR/M021475/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Polygenic scores are a popular tool for prediction of complex traits. However, prediction estimates in samples of unrelated participants can include effects of population stratification, assortative mating, and environmentally mediated parental genetic effects, a form of genotype-environment correlation (rGE). Comparing genome-wide polygenic score (GPS) predictions in unrelated individuals with predictions between siblings in a within-family design is a powerful approach to identify these different sources of prediction. Here, we compared within- to between-family GPS predictions of eight outcomes (anthropometric, cognitive, personality, and health) for eight corresponding GPSs. The outcomes were assessed in up to 2,366 dizygotic (DZ) twin pairs from the Twins Early Development Study from age 12 to age 21. To account for family clustering, we used mixed-effects modeling, simultaneously estimating within- and between-family effects for target- and cross-trait GPS prediction of the outcomes. There were three main findings: (1) DZ twin GPS differences predicted DZ differences in height, BMI, intelligence, educational achievement, and ADHD symptoms; (2) target and cross-trait analyses indicated that GPS prediction estimates for cognitive traits (intelligence and educational achievement) were on average 60% greater between families than within families, but this was not the case for non-cognitive traits; and (3) much of this within- and between-family difference for cognitive traits disappeared after controlling for family socio-economic status (SES), suggesting that SES is a major source of between-family prediction through rGE mechanisms. These results provide insights into the patterns by which rGE contributes to GPS prediction, while ruling out confounding due to population stratification and assortative mating.
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