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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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- 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
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- 2026: 134 · 2025: 123 · 2024: 103 · 2023: 50 · 2022: 18
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- 45.68
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- Language
- en
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- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
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- 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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