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Probabilistic inference of the genetic architecture underlying functional enrichment of complex traits

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  • Marion Patxot

    (University of Lausanne)

  • Daniel Trejo Banos

    (University of Lausanne)

  • Athanasios Kousathanas

    (University of Lausanne)

  • Etienne J. Orliac

    (University of Lausanne)

  • Sven E. Ojavee

    (University of Lausanne)

  • Gerhard Moser

    (Australian Agricultural Company Limited)

  • Alexander Holloway

    (University of Lausanne)

  • Julia Sidorenko

    (University of Queensland)

  • Zoltan Kutalik

    (University of Lausanne
    University Center for Primary Care and Public Health
    Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

  • Reedik Mägi

    (University of Tartu)

  • Peter M. Visscher

    (University of Queensland)

  • Lars Rönnegård

    (Dalarna University
    Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

  • Matthew R. Robinson

    (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)

Abstract

We develop a Bayesian model (BayesRR-RC) that provides robust SNP-heritability estimation, an alternative to marker discovery, and accurate genomic prediction, taking 22 seconds per iteration to estimate 8.4 million SNP-effects and 78 SNP-heritability parameters in the UK Biobank. We find that only ≤10% of the genetic variation captured for height, body mass index, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes is attributable to proximal regulatory regions within 10kb upstream of genes, while 12-25% is attributed to coding regions, 32–44% to introns, and 22-28% to distal 10-500kb upstream regions. Up to 24% of all cis and coding regions of each chromosome are associated with each trait, with over 3,100 independent exonic and intronic regions and over 5,400 independent regulatory regions having ≥95% probability of contributing ≥0.001% to the genetic variance of these four traits. Our open-source software (GMRM) provides a scalable alternative to current approaches for biobank data.

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  • Marion Patxot & Daniel Trejo Banos & Athanasios Kousathanas & Etienne J. Orliac & Sven E. Ojavee & Gerhard Moser & Alexander Holloway & Julia Sidorenko & Zoltan Kutalik & Reedik Mägi & Peter M. Vissch, 2021. "Probabilistic inference of the genetic architecture underlying functional enrichment of complex traits," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-16, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:12:y:2021:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-021-27258-9
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27258-9
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