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Partitioning Heritability of Regulatory and Cell-Type-Specific Variants across 11 Common Diseases

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Gusev, Alexander, Lee, S. Hong, Trynka, Gosia, Finucane, Hilary, Vilhjálmsson, Bjarni J., Xu, Han, Zang, Chongzhi, Ripke, Stephan +337 more·2014·The American Journal of Human Genetics

Abstract

Regulatory and coding variants are known to be enriched with associations identified by genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of complex disease, but their contributions to trait heritability are currently unknown. We applied variance-component methods to imputed genotype data for 11 common diseases to partition the heritability explained by genotyped SNPs (hg(2)) across functional categories (while accounting for shared variance due to linkage disequilibrium). Extensive simulations showed that in contrast to current estimates from GWAS summary statistics, the variance-component approach partitions heritability accurately under a wide range of complex-disease architectures. Across the 11 diseases DNaseI hypersensitivity sites (DHSs) from 217 cell types spanned 16% of imputed SNPs (and 24% of genotyped SNPs) but explained an average of 79% (SE = 8%) of hg(2) from imputed SNPs (5.1× enrichment; p = 3.7 × 10(-17)) and 38% (SE = 4%) of hg(2) from genotyped SNPs (1.6× enrichment, p = 1.0 × 10(-4)). Further enrichment was observed at enhancer DHSs and cell-type-specific DHSs. In contrast, coding variants, which span 1% of the genome, explained <10% of hg(2) despite having the highest enrichment. We replicated these findings but found no significant contribution from rare coding variants in independent schizophrenia cohorts genotyped on GWAS and exome chips. Our results highlight the value of analyzing components of heritability to unravel the functional architecture of common disease.

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Gusev, A., Lee, S. H., Trynka, G., Finucane, H., Vilhjálmsson, B. J., Xu, H., Zang, C., Ripke, S., Bulik-Sullivan, B., Stahl, E., Kähler, A. K., Hultman, C. M., Purcell, S. M., McCarroll, S. A., Daly, M., Pasaniuc, B., Sullivan, P. F., Neale, B. M., Wray, N. R., Raychaudhuri, S., Price, A. L., Ripke, S., Neale, B. M., Corvin, A., Walters, J. T. R., Farh, K.-H., Holmans, P. A., Lee, P., Bulik-Sullivan, B., Collier, D. A., Huang, H., Pers, T. H., Agartz, I., Agerbo, E., Albus, M., Alexander, M., Amin, F., Bacanu, S. A., Begemann, M., Belliveau, R. A., Bene, J., Bergen, S. E., Bevilacqua, E., Bigdeli, T. B., Black, D. W., Børglum, A. D., Bruggeman, R., Buccola, N. G., Buckner, R. L., Byerley, W., Cahn, W., Cai, G., Campion, D., Cantor, R. M., Carr, V. J., Carrera, N., Catts, S. V., Chambert, K. D., Chan, R. C. K., Chen, R. Y. L., Chen, E. Y. H., Cheng, W., Cheung, E. F. C., Chong, S. A., Cloninger, C. R., Cohen, D., Cohen, N., Cormican, P., Craddock, N., Crowley, J. J., Curtis, D., Davidson, M., Davis, K. L., Degenhardt, F., Del Favero, J., DeLisi, L. E., Demontis, D., Dikeos, D., Dinan, T., Djurovic, S., Donohoe, G., Drapeau, E., Duan, J., Dudbridge, F., Durmishi, N., Eichhammer, P., Eriksson, J., Escott-Price, V., Essioux, L., Fanous, A. H., Farrell, M. S., Frank, J., Franke, L., Freedman, R., Freimer, N. B., Friedl, M., Friedman, J. I., Fromer, M., Genovese, G., Georgieva, L., Gershon, E. S., Giegling, I., Giusti-Rodrguez, P., Godard, S., Goldstein, J. I., Golimbet, V., Gopal, S., Gratten, J., Grove, J., de Haan, L., Hammer, C., Hamshere, M. L., Hansen, M., Hansen, T., Haroutunian, V., Hartmann, A. M., Henskens, F. A., Herms, S., Hirschhorn, J. N., Hoffmann, P., Hofman, A., Hollegaard, M. V., Hougaard, D. M., Ikeda, M., Joa, I., Julià, A., Kahn, R. S., Kalaydjieva, L., Karachanak-Yankova, S., Karjalainen, J., Kavanagh, D., Keller, M. C., Kelly, B. J., Kennedy, J. L., Khrunin, A., Kim, Y., Klovins, J., Knowles, J. A., Konte, B., Kucinskas, V., Kucinskiene, Z. A., Kuzelova-Ptackova, H., Kähler, A. K., Laurent, C., Keong, J. L. C., Lee, S. H., Legge, S. E., Lerer, B., Li, M., Li, T., Liang, K.-Y., Lieberman, J., Limborska, S., Loughland, C. M., Lubinski, J., Lnnqvist, J., Macek, M., Magnusson, P. K. E., Maher, B. S., Maier, W., Mallet, J., Marsal, S., Mattheisen, M., Mattingsdal, M., McCarley, R. W., McDonald, C., McIntosh, A. M., Meier, S., Meijer, C. J., Melegh, B., Melle, I., Mesholam-Gately, R. I., Metspalu, A., Michie, P. T., Milani, L., Milanova, V., Mokrab, Y., Morris, D. W., Mors, O., Mortensen, P. B., Murphy, K. C., Murray, R. M., Myin-Germeys, I., Mller-Myhsok, B., Nelis, M., Nenadic, I., Nertney, D. A., Nestadt, G., Nicodemus, K. K., Nikitina-Zake, L., Nisenbaum, L., Nordin, A., O’Callaghan, E., O’Dushlaine, C., O’Neill, F. A., Oh, S.-Y., Olincy, A., Olsen, L., Van Os, J., Pantelis, C., Papadimitriou, G. N., Papiol, S., Parkhomenko, E., Pato, M. T., Paunio, T., Pejovic-Milovancevic, M., Perkins, D. O., Pietilinen, O., Pimm, J., Pocklington, A. J., Powell, J., Price, A., Pulver, A. E., Purcell, S. M., Quested, D., Rasmussen, H. B., Reichenberg, A., Reimers, M. A., Richards, A. L., Roffman, J. L., Roussos, P., Ruderfer, D. M., Salomaa, V., Sanders, A. R., Schall, U., Schubert, C. R., Schulze, T. G., Schwab, S. G., Scolnick, E. M., Scott, R. J., Seidman, L. J., Shi, J., Sigurdsson, E., Silagadze, T., Silverman, J. M., Sim, K., Slominsky, P., Smoller, J. W., So, H.-C., Spencer, C. C. A., Stahl, E. A., Stefansson, H., Steinberg, S., Stogmann, E., Straub, R. E., Strengman, E., Strohmaier, J., Stroup, T. S., Subramaniam, M., Suvisaari, J., Svrakic, D. M., Szatkiewicz, J. P., Sderman, E., Thirumalai, S., Toncheva, D., Tooney, P. A., Tosato, S., Veijola, J., Waddington, J., Walsh, D., Wang, D., Wang, Q., Webb, B. T., Weiser, M., Wildenauer, D. B., Williams, N. M., Williams, S., Witt, S. H., Wolen, A. R., Wong, E. H. M., Wormley, B. K., Wu, J. Q., Xi, H. S., Zai, C. C., Zheng, X., Zimprich, F., Wray, N. R., Stefansson, K., Visscher, P. M., Adolfsson, R., Andreassen, O. A., Blackwood, D. H. R., Bramon, E., Buxbaum, J. D., Brglum, A. D., Cichon, S., Darvasi, A., Domenici, E., Ehrenreich, H., Esko, T., Gejman, P. V., Gill, M., Gurling, H., Hultman, C. M., Iwata, N., Jablensky, A. V., Jönsson, E. G., Kendler, K. S., Kirov, G., Knight, J., Lencz, T., Levinson, D. F., Li, Q. S., Liu, J., Malhotra, A. K., McCarroll, S. A., McQuillin, A., Moran, J. L., Mortensen, P. B., Mowry, B. J., Nthen, M. M., Ophoff, R. A., Owen, M. J., Palotie, A., Pato, C. N., Petryshen, T. L., Posthuma, D., Rietschel, M., Riley, B. P., Rujescu, D., Sham, P. C., Sklar, P., St. Clair, D., Weinberger, D. R., Wendland, J. R., Werge, T., Daly, M. J., Sullivan, P. F., O’Donovan, M. C., Ripke, S., O’Dushlaine, C., Chambert, K., Moran, J. L., Kähler, A. K., Akterin, S., Bergen, S., Magnusson, P. K. E., Neale, B. M., Ruderfer, D., Scolnick, E., Purcell, S., McCarroll, S., Sklar, P., Hultman, C. M., & Sullivan, P. F.
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  • Broad Institute (US)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • The University of Queensland (AU)
  • Karolinska Institutet (SE)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
Corresponding author
Gusev, Alexander
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The American Journal of Human Genetics
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Elsevier BV
Published
2014-11
Volume
95
Issue
5
Pages
535-552
ISSN
0002-9297 (ISSN-L)
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W2159417227
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en
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Funders
  • Hertz Foundation
  • Wellcome Trust (076113)
  • Lundbeckfonden (R155-2014-1724)
  • National Institutes of Health (5r01ar063759-07, 5u01mh094432-04)
  • Medical Research Council (MR/L010305/1)
  • Australian Research Council (FT0991360, DE130100614)
  • National Health and Medical Research Council (613602)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (U01MH096296, U01 MH094432, R01MH085548, T32MH020030, R01MH101244)
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (R03HG006731, 1U01HG0070033)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM105857, F32GM106584)
  • National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (R01-AR063759)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
Keywords
regulatory variants, enhancers, common complex diseases, variance components, linkage disequilibrium, coding variants, rare coding variants, schizophrenia, genome-wide association study
MeSH terms
Computer Simulation, Humans, Models, Genetic, Genetic Variation, Open Reading Frames, Genetic Diseases, Inborn, Inheritance Patterns, Regulatory Elements, Transcriptional, Genome-Wide Association Study

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