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Bayesian Test for Colocalisation between Pairs of Genetic Association Studies Using Summary Statistics
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Genetic association studies, in particular the genome-wide association study (GWAS) design, have provided a wealth of novel insights into the aetiology of a wide range of human diseases and traits, in particular cardiovascular diseases and lipid biomarkers. The next challenge consists of understanding the molecular basis of these associations. The integration of multiple association datasets, including gene expression datasets, can contribute to this goal. We have developed a novel statistical methodology to assess whether two association signals are consistent with a shared causal variant. An application is the integration of disease scans with expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) studies, but any pair of GWAS datasets can be integrated in this framework. We demonstrate the value of the approach by re-analysing a gene expression dataset in 966 liver samples with a published meta-analysis of lipid traits including >100,000 individuals of European ancestry. Combining all lipid biomarkers, our re-analysis supported 26 out of 38 reported colocalisation results with eQTLs and identified 14 new colocalisation results, hence highlighting the value of a formal statistical test. In three cases of reported eQTL-lipid pairs (SYPL2, IFT172, TBKBP1) for which our analysis suggests that the eQTL pattern is not consistent with the lipid association, we identify alternative colocalisation results with SORT1, GCKR, and KPNB1, indicating that these genes are more likely to be causal in these genomic intervals. A key feature of the method is the ability to derive the output statistics from single SNP summary statistics, hence making it possible to perform systematic meta-analysis type comparisons across multiple GWAS datasets (implemented online at http://coloc.cs.ucl.ac.uk/coloc/). Our methodology provides information about candidate causal genes in associated intervals and has direct implications for the understanding of complex diseases as well as the design of drugs to target disease pathways.
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“because the presence of multiple associated variants in a region violates the assumptions of COLOC and can lead to false positives or false negatives [13].”
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“Considering the 106 miRNA-host pairs (103 mature miRNAs from 77 precursors in 71 host genes) for which the miRNA had miR-QTLs and the host gene had eQTLs, we found evidence of colocalization between miR-QTLs and host gene eQTLs (coloc PP.H4 > 0.5) for 17 pairs and no evidence of colocalization for 89 pairs (Supplementary Table 9).”
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“Finally, we assessed colocalization48,49 between each of our 2,477 significant pQTL associations (cis and trans) and the AD GWAS. After exclusion of pleiotropic regions, 32 proteins had QTL that colocalized with AD risk (PP.H4>0.8, Fig. 4A, Supp. Tables S43&44).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Giambartolomei, C., Vukcevic, D., Schadt, E. E., Franke, L., Hingorani, A. D., Wallace, C., & Plagnol, V.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Royal Children's Hospital (AU)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
- University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Giambartolomei, Claudia
- ORCID
- Venue
- PLoS Genetics
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2014-05-15
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- e1004383
- ISSN
- 1553-7390 (ISSN-L)
- 1553-7404
- PMC
- PMC4022491
- OpenAlex
- W2073836327
- Cited by
- 4,261
- References
- 68
- Citations by year
- 2026: 797 · 2025: 949 · 2024: 871 · 2023: 441 · 2022: 343 · 2021: 323 · 2020: 195 · 2019: 120 · 2018: 105 · 2017: 59 · 2016: 30 · 2015: 20 · 2014: 4
- FWCI
- 4.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- PLoS Genetics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Minerva Access (University of Melbourne) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Apollo (University of Cambridge) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Apollo (cc-by)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (091157, 089989, 100140, 091157/Z/10/Z, 100140/Z/12/Z, 091157/Z/10/B, 089989/Z/09/Z)
- National Institute for Health and Care Research
- British Heart Foundation
- Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Medical Research Council (MR/K006584/1)
- Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge (100140)
- NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Keywords
- genetic association summary statistics, expression quantitative trait loci, lipid biomarkers, hepatic gene expression, causal variant identification, SORT1, GCKR, KPNB1, cardiovascular genetics
- MeSH terms
- Bayes Theorem, Humans, Sample Size, Genome-Wide Association Study
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