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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
卷 -, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyad142
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Genetic association; structural equation modelling; human leukocyte antigen; birthweight; UK Biobank
The study utilizes structural equation modeling (SEM) to estimate the maternal and fetal effects of classical HLA alleles on birthweight (BW). Results show that the model generates unbiased estimates, appropriate type I error rates, and sufficient power to detect allelic effects on BW. New allelic associations between BW and classical HLA alleles provide insights into the immunogenetics of fetal growth in utero.
Background: Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region in both maternal and fetal genomes have been robustly associated with birthweight (BW) in previous genetic association studies. However, no study to date has partitioned the association between BW and classical HLA alleles into maternal and fetal components.Methods: We used structural equation modelling (SEM) to estimate the maternal and fetal effects of classical HLA alleles on BW. Our SEM leverages the data structure of the UK Biobank (UKB), which includes similar to 270 000 participants' own BW and/or the BW of their firstborn child.Results: We show via simulation that our model yields asymptotically unbiased estimates of the maternal and fetal allelic effects on BW and appropriate type I error rates, in contrast to simple regression models. Asymptotic power calculations show that we have sufficient power to detect moderate-sized maternal or fetal allelic effects of common HLA alleles on BW in the UKB. Applying our SEM to imputed classical HLA alleles and own and offspring BW from the UKB replicated the previously reported association at the HLA-C locus and revealed strong evidence for maternal (HLA-A*03:01, B*35:01, B*39:06, P <0.001) and fetal allelic effects (HLA-B*39:06, P <0.001) of non-HLA-C alleles on BW.Conclusions: Our model yields asymptotically unbiased estimates, appropriate type I error rates and appreciable power to estimate maternal and fetal effects on BW. These novel allelic associations between BW and classical HLA alleles provide insight into the immunogenetics of fetal growth in utero.
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