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Transethnic Genetic-Correlation Estimates from Summary Statistics.


ABSTRACT: The increasing number of genetic association studies conducted in multiple populations provides an unprecedented opportunity to study how the genetic architecture of complex phenotypes varies between populations, a problem important for both medical and population genetics. Here, we have developed a method for estimating the transethnic genetic correlation: the correlation of causal-variant effect sizes at SNPs common in populations. This methods takes advantage of the entire spectrum of SNP associations and uses only summary-level data from genome-wide association studies. This avoids the computational costs and privacy concerns associated with genotype-level information while remaining scalable to hundreds of thousands of individuals and millions of SNPs. We applied our method to data on gene expression, rheumatoid arthritis, and type 2 diabetes and overwhelmingly found that the genetic correlation was significantly less than 1. Our method is implemented in a Python package called Popcorn.

SUBMITTER: Brown BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5005434 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Transethnic Genetic-Correlation Estimates from Summary Statistics.

Brown Brielin C BC   Ye Chun Jimmie CJ   Price Alkes L AL   Zaitlen Noah N  

American journal of human genetics 20160616 1


The increasing number of genetic association studies conducted in multiple populations provides an unprecedented opportunity to study how the genetic architecture of complex phenotypes varies between populations, a problem important for both medical and population genetics. Here, we have developed a method for estimating the transethnic genetic correlation: the correlation of causal-variant effect sizes at SNPs common in populations. This methods takes advantage of the entire spectrum of SNP ass  ...[more]

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