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Localizing Components of Shared Transethnic Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits from GWAS Summary Data.


ABSTRACT: 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.

SUBMITTER: Shi H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7273527 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Localizing Components of Shared Transethnic Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits from GWAS Summary Data.

Shi Huwenbo H   Burch Kathryn S KS   Johnson Ruth R   Freund Malika K MK   Kichaev Gleb G   Mancuso Nicholas N   Manuel Astrid M AM   Dong Natalie N   Pasaniuc Bogdan B  

American journal of human genetics 20200521 6


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  ...[more]

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