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Fine-mapping from summary data with the “Sum of Single Effects” model
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In recent work, Wang et al introduced the “Sum of Single Effects” ( SuSiE ) model, and showed that it provides a simple and efficient approach to fine-mapping genetic variants from individual-level data. Here we present new methods for fitting the SuSiE model to summary data, for example to single-SNP z -scores from an association study and linkage disequilibrium (LD) values estimated from a suitable reference panel. To develop these new methods, we first describe a simple, generic strategy for extending any individual-level data method to deal with summary data. The key idea is to replace the usual regression likelihood with an analogous likelihood based on summary data. We show that existing fine-mapping methods such as FINEMAP and CAVIAR also (implicitly) use this strategy, but in different ways, and so this provides a common framework for understanding different methods for fine-mapping. We investigate other common practical issues in fine-mapping with summary data, including problems caused by inconsistencies between the z -scores and LD estimates, and we develop diagnostics to identify these inconsistencies. We also present a new refinement procedure that improves model fits in some data sets, and hence improves overall reliability of the SuSiE fine-mapping results. Detailed evaluations of fine-mapping methods in a range of simulated data sets show that SuSiE applied to summary data is competitive, in both speed and accuracy, with the best available fine-mapping methods for summary data.
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![Fig 4 Assessment of 95% credible sets from SuSiE-RSS, FINEMAP and DAP-G with different LD estimates, and different LD regularization methods. For in-sample LD, two variants of SuSiE-RSS were also compared (see Table 1): when the residual variance σ2 was estimated (“sufficient data”), or fixed to 1 (“summary data”). We evaluate the estimated CSs using the following metrics: (A) coverage, the proportion of CSs that contain a true causal SNP; (B) power, the proportion of true causal SNPs included in a CS; (C) median number of SNPs in each CS; and (D) median purity, where “purity” is defined as the smallest absolute correlation among all pairs of SNPs within a CS. These statistics are taken as the mean (A, B) or median (C, D) over all simulations; error bars in A and B show two times the standard error. The target coverage of 95% is shown as a dotted horizontal line in Panel A. Following [17], we discarded all CSs with purity less than 0.5.](/paper-figures/a0127902db154a588407f89eac09a350/fine-mapping-from-summary-data-with-the-sum-of-single-effects-model-figure-4.jpg)


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“The s values from SuSiE-RSS ranged from 0.007 to 0.027 across fine-mapped loci, and the diagnostic plots demonstrated high consistency of LD between the summary statistics and reference panel (Supplementary Fig. 19a–g).”
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Broberg, M. E., Gen, F., Kalso, E., & Ollila, H. M. (2025) · Human Molecular Genetics · doi:10.1093/hmg/ddaf200
“For fine-mapping the meta-analysis results we used the SuSiE [65] v0.”
Strausz, S. J., Broberg, M. E., Jones, S. E., Koskela, J. T., Kiiskinen, T., FinnGen, Palotie, A. V., Palotie, T., Bachour, A., Saxena, R., et al. (2025) · European Respiratory Journal · doi:10.1183/13993003.01778-2024 · Cited by 2
“To explore the causality of genomic variations in the serotonin receptor 1F ( HTR1F ) locus related to sleep apnoea, a fine-mapping approach was employed using the SuSiE “ Sum of Single Effects ” model [18].”
Doherty, E., Laighneach, A., Casburn, M., Quilligan, F., Donohoe, G., Cannon, D. M., & Morris, D. (2025) · medRxiv · doi:10.1101/2025.05.15.25327674
“64 The strongest association signal for SP was at ZNF536 where the lead SNP was identified by SuSiE fine-mapping 43 as a credible causal variant.”
Liu, X.-R., Crawford, L., & Ramachandran, S. (2025) · bioRxiv · doi:10.1101/2025.02.11.637655
“We benchmark our NN methods against elastic net [14] and the fine-mapping method SuSiE-RSS [56,64] for shrinkage, both computationally expensive when applied on a large number of variants.”
InfluentialKuksa, P. P., Ionita, M., Carter, L., Cifello, J., Clark, K., Valladares, O., Leung, Y. Y., & Wang, L. (2024) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2024.10.30.621077
“…conditional analysis (Galarneau et al., 2010; Knight et al., 2012; Uffelmann et al., 2021; Yang et al., 2012), CAVIAR/CAVIARBF (Chen et al., 2015; Chen et al., 2016; Hormozdiari et al., 2014), DAP-G (Wen et al., 2016), FINEMAP (Benner et al., 2016), and SuSiE (Wang et al., 2020; Zou et al., 2022).”
Yang, Y.-H., Lorincz-Comi, N., & Zhu, X.-F. (2024) · medRxiv · doi:10.1101/2024.11.13.24317250
“TGVIS utilizes a profile-likelihood approach to estimate the causal effects of gene-tissue pairs and directly causal variant effects with SuSiE 16,18 and model the infinitesimal effects via REML 22 .”
BEATRICE: Bayesian fine-mapping from summary data using deep variational inference
Ghosal, S., Schatz, M. C., & Venkataraman, A. (2024) · Bioinformatics · doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btae590 · Cited by 5
“• SuSiE: [40, 34] introduced an iterative Bayesian selection approach for fine-mapping that represents the causal vector as a sum of “single-effect” vectors.”
InfluentialZhang, Y.-F., Wang, J., Yi, C., Su, Y., Yin, Z., Zhang, S., Wang, K., Huang, H., Li, J., & Fan, S. (2024) · bioRxiv · doi:10.1101/2024.06.23.600148
“To run SuSiE, we used a custom pipeline from a prior study 48 , which infers the causal SNP within each locus by using the susie_rss function.”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialJiang, L., Shen, J., Darst, B. F., Haiman, C. A., Mancuso, N., & Conti, D. V. (2024) · Genetic Epidemiology · doi:10.1002/gepi.22577
“…is developed for individual level data, an implementation of SuSiE with summary ‐ level data is also available in the susieR package, provided by Zou et al. (2022) This implementation uses sufficient statistics, including G G ′ , G x ′ , and x x ′ , to fit the single effect regression and…”
Gorman, B., Ji, S.-G., Francis, M., Sendamarai, A., Shi, Y., Devineni, P., Saxena, U., Partan, E., DeVito, A. K., Byun, J., et al. (2024) · medRxiv · doi:10.1101/2024.04.25.24306313
“We performed Bayesian fine-mapping the genome-wide significant loci from EA meta-analysis and AA using the FinnGen fine-mapping pipeline 73 (https://github.com/FINNGEN/finemapping-pipeline ) and SuSiE 25,26 .”
MethodRasooly, D., Giambartolomei, C., Peloso, G. M., Dashti, H., Ferolito, B. R., Golden, D. J., Horimoto, A. R. V. R., Pietzner, M., Farber‐Eger, E. H., Wells, Q. S., et al. (2024) · medRxiv · doi:10.1101/2024.03.22.24304728
“SuSiE 75,76 (“Sum of Single Effects”) is a fine-mapping method based on a new model for sparse multiple regression, and entails a Bayesian modification of simple forward selection.”
MethodFast and flexible joint fine-mapping of multiple traits via the Sum of Single Effects model
Zou, Y.-X., Carbonetto, P., Xie, D.-Y., Wang, G., & Stephens, M. (2023) · bioRxiv · doi:10.1101/2023.04.14.536893
“Many statistical fine-mapping methods have been developed to prioritize putative causal SNPs for a single trait [9, 20, 35, 42, 46, 51, 52, 54, 56, 59, 67, 75, 78, 79, 95, 96, 99, 101, 106].”
InfluentialSelf-citationGilchrist, L., Spargo, T. P., Green, R., Coleman, J. R. I., Howard, D. M., Thorp, J. G., Adey, B. N., Lord, J., Davies, H. L., Mundy, J., et al. (2023) · medRxiv · doi:10.1101/2023.06.05.23290588
Accurate and Efficient Estimation of Local Heritability using Summary Statistics and LD MatrixPreprint
Li, H., Mazumder, R., & Lin, X. (2023) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2023.02.08.527759
“Finally, we note that a parallel work – SuSiE-RSS – also exploits the sufficient statistics of the likelihood function to enable "dual" algorithms that are applicable to both individual-level data and summary-level statistics 23 .”
BackgroundMethodHutchinson, A., Chen, W., Önengüt-Gümüşcü, S., Benitez‐Aguirre, P., Cameron, F. J., Chiesa, S. T., Couper, J., Craig, M. E., Dalton, N. R., Daneman, D., et al. (2022) · medRxiv · doi:10.1101/2022.12.19.22283443
“In practice, the relevant studies on T1DKP were for the SUMMIT consortium (30, 31).”
BackgroundClifford, R., Munro, D., Dochterman, D., Devineni, P., Pyarajan, S., Telese, F., Mohammadi, P., Palmer, A., & Friedman, R. (2022) · medRxiv · doi:10.1101/2022.12.14.22283471
Karhunen, V., Launonen, I., Järvelin, M., Sebert, S., & Sillanpää, M. (2022) · bioRxiv · doi:10.1101/2022.12.02.518898
“[16] give a toy example of such scenario of two variants, with ẑ = (6 7) and R̂ = ( 1 1 1 1 ) .”
InfluentialA frequent ancestral NFKB1 variant predicts risk of infection or allergyPreprint
Chong, A., Brenner, N., Jiménez-Kaufmann, A., Cortes, A., Hill, M., Littlejohns, T., Gilchrist, J., Fairfax, B., Knight, J., Hodel, F., et al. (2022) · medRxiv · doi:10.1101/2022.11.24.22282707
Genetic and peripheral visual system changes underlie evolving butterfly mate preference
VanKuren, N. W., Buerkle, N., Westerman, E., Im, A. K., Massardo, D., Southcott, L. M., Lu, W., Palmer, S., & Kronforst, M. R. (2022) · bioRxiv · doi:10.1101/2022.04.25.489404
“F, Posterior inclusion probability for each variant in the K locus, calculated using SuSiE-RSS (20).”
Method
Metadata
- Authors
- Zou, Y., Carbonetto, P., Wang, G., & Stephens, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago (US)
- Columbia University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Stephens, Matthew
- Venue
- PLOS Genetics
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2022-07-19
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- e1010299
- ISSN
- 1553-7390 (ISSN-L)
- 1553-7404
- PMC
- PMC9337707
- OpenAlex
- W4286218496
- Semantic Scholar
- 9397075def54e53ddb3d934e9e45679c4cdb0422
- Cited by
- 429
- References
- 52
- Citations by year
- 2026: 134 · 2025: 123 · 2024: 103 · 2023: 50 · 2022: 18
- FWCI
- 45.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- new_version (2022-07-29)
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- PLoS Genetics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Knowledge@UChicago (University of Chicago) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- University of Chicago (cc-by)
- Funders
- National Human Genome Research Institute (R01HG002585)
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- National Institute on Aging (U01AG072572)
- Thompson Family Foundation Initative (TAME-AD)
- 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
- fine mapping, summary data, linkage disequilibrium, caviar, model fitting, model refinement, genetic association studies
- MeSH terms
- Models, Genetic, Reproducibility of Results, Linkage Disequilibrium, Likelihood Functions, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
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