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Localizing Components of Shared Transethnic Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits from GWAS Summary Data.
American Journal of Human Genetics ( IF 9.8 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-21 , DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.04.012
Huwenbo Shi 1 , Kathryn S Burch 2 , Ruth Johnson 3 , Malika K Freund 4 , Gleb Kichaev 2 , Nicholas Mancuso 5 , Astrid M Manuel 6 , Natalie Dong 7 , Bogdan Pasaniuc 8
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Despite strong transethnic genetic correlations reported in the literature for many complex traits, the non-transferability of polygenic risk scores across populations suggests the presence of population-specific components of genetic architecture. We propose an approach that models GWAS summary data for one trait in two populations to estimate genome-wide proportions of population-specific/shared causal SNPs. In simulations across various genetic architectures, we show that our approach yields approximately unbiased estimates with in-sample LD and slight upward-bias with out-of-sample LD. We analyze nine complex traits in individuals of East Asian and European ancestry, restricting to common SNPs (MAF > 5%), and find that most common causal SNPs are shared by both populations. Using the genome-wide estimates as priors in an empirical Bayes framework, we perform fine-mapping and observe that high-posterior SNPs (for both the population-specific and shared causal configurations) have highly correlated effects in East Asians and Europeans. In population-specific GWAS risk regions, we observe a 2.8× enrichment of shared high-posterior SNPs, suggesting that population-specific GWAS risk regions harbor shared causal SNPs that are undetected in the other GWASs due to differences in LD, allele frequencies, and/or sample size. Finally, we report enrichments of shared high-posterior SNPs in 53 tissue-specific functional categories and find evidence that SNP-heritability enrichments are driven largely by many low-effect common SNPs.

更新日期:2020-05-21
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