Gene–environment correlations across geographic regions affect genome-wide association studies

A Abdellaoui, CV Dolan, KJH Verweij, MG Nivard - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Gene–environment correlations affect associations between genetic variants and complex
traits in genome-wide association studies (GWASs). Here we showed in up to 43,516 British …

Allele-specific expression reveals interactions between genetic variation and environment

DA Knowles, JR Davis, H Edgington, A Raj, MJ Favé… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Identifying interactions between genetics and the environment (GxE) remains challenging.
We have developed EAGLE, a hierarchical Bayesian model for identifying GxE interactions …

Apparent latent structure within the UK Biobank sample has implications for epidemiological analysis

S Haworth, R Mitchell, L Corbin, KH Wade… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Large studies use genotype data to discover genetic contributions to complex traits and infer
relationships between those traits. Co-incident geographical variation in genotypes and …

Quantification of the overall contribution of gene-environment interaction for obesity-related traits

J Sulc, N Mounier, F Günther, T Winkler… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The growing sample size of genome-wide association studies has facilitated the discovery of
gene-environment interactions (GxE). Here we propose a maximum likelihood method to …

Localising loci underlying complex trait variation using regional genomic relationship mapping

Y Nagamine, R Pong-Wong, P Navarro, V Vitart… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
The limited proportion of complex trait variance identified in genome-wide association
studies may reflect the limited power of single SNP analyses to detect either rare causative …

Genetic correlates of social stratification in Great Britain

A Abdellaoui, D Hugh-Jones, L Yengo… - Nature human …, 2019 - nature.com
Human DNA polymorphisms vary across geographic regions, with the most commonly
observed variation reflecting distant ancestry differences. Here we investigate the …

Within-sibship genome-wide association analyses decrease bias in estimates of direct genetic effects

LJ Howe, MG Nivard, TT Morris, AF Hansen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Estimates from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of unrelated individuals capture
effects of inherited variation (direct effects), demography (population stratification …

The E is in the G: gene–environment–trait correlations and findings from Genome-Wide Association Studies

R Avinun - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have shown that pleiotropy is widespread (ie,
the same genetic variants affect multiple traits) and that complex traits are polygenic (ie …

Genotype-by-environment interactions inferred from genetic effects on phenotypic variability in the UK Biobank

H Wang, F Zhang, J Zeng, Y Wu, KE Kemper, A Xue… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Genotype-by-environment interaction (GEI) is a fundamental component in understanding
complex trait variation. However, it remains challenging to identify genetic variants with GEI …

[PDF][PDF] Genetic interactions drive heterogeneity in causal variant effect sizes for gene expression and complex traits

RA Patel, SA Musharoff, JP Spence, H Pimentel… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - cell.com
Despite the growing number of genome-wide association studies (GWASs), it remains
unclear to what extent gene-by-gene and gene-by-environment interactions influence …