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Estimating SNP-Based Heritability and Genetic Correlation in Case-Control Studies Directly and with Summary Statistics.


ABSTRACT: Methods that estimate SNP-based heritability and genetic correlations from genome-wide association studies have proven to be powerful tools for investigating the genetic architecture of common diseases and exposing unexpected relationships between disorders. Many relevant studies employ a case-control design, yet most methods are primarily geared toward analyzing quantitative traits. Here we investigate the validity of three common methods for estimating SNP-based heritability and genetic correlation between diseases. We find that the phenotype-correlation-genotype-correlation (PCGC) approach is the only method that can estimate both quantities accurately in the presence of important non-genetic risk factors, such as age and sex. We extend PCGC to work with arbitrary genetic architectures and with summary statistics that take the case-control sampling into account, and we demonstrate that our new method, PCGC-s, accurately estimates both SNP-based heritability and genetic correlations and can be applied to large datasets without requiring individual-level genotypic or phenotypic information. Finally, we use PCGC-s to estimate the genetic correlation between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and demonstrate that previous estimates are biased, partially due to incorrect handling of sex as a strong risk factor.

SUBMITTER: Weissbrod O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6035374 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Estimating SNP-Based Heritability and Genetic Correlation in Case-Control Studies Directly and with Summary Statistics.

Weissbrod Omer O   Flint Jonathan J   Rosset Saharon S  

American journal of human genetics 20180701 1


Methods that estimate SNP-based heritability and genetic correlations from genome-wide association studies have proven to be powerful tools for investigating the genetic architecture of common diseases and exposing unexpected relationships between disorders. Many relevant studies employ a case-control design, yet most methods are primarily geared toward analyzing quantitative traits. Here we investigate the validity of three common methods for estimating SNP-based heritability and genetic correl  ...[more]

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