[PDF][PDF] Estimation of non-additive genetic variance in human complex traits from a large sample of unrelated individuals

V Hivert, J Sidorenko, F Rohart, ME Goddard… - The American Journal of …, 2021 - cell.com
Non-additive genetic variance for complex traits is traditionally estimated from data on
relatives. It is notoriously difficult to estimate without bias in non-laboratory species …

[PDF][PDF] Dominance genetic variation contributes little to the missing heritability for human complex traits

Z Zhu, A Bakshi, AAE Vinkhuyzen, G Hemani… - The American Journal of …, 2015 - cell.com
For human complex traits, non-additive genetic variation has been invoked to explain"
missing heritability," but its discovery is often neglected in genome-wide association studies …

[PDF][PDF] Localizing components of shared transethnic genetic architecture of complex traits from GWAS summary data

H Shi, KS Burch, R Johnson, MK Freund… - The American Journal of …, 2020 - cell.com
Despite strong transethnic genetic correlations reported in the literature for many complex
traits, the non-transferability of polygenic risk scores across populations suggests the …

Estimation and partition of heritability in human populations using whole-genome analysis methods

AAE Vinkhuyzen, NR Wray, J Yang… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Understanding genetic variation of complex traits in human populations has moved from the
quantification of the resemblance between close relatives to the dissection of genetic …

[PDF][PDF] Population structure can inflate SNP-based heritability estimates

SR Browning, BL Browning - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2011 - cell.com
To the Editor: Recently, Lee et al. 1 presented a method to estimate the proportion of
phenotypic variation explained by common SNPs for case-control phenotypes. This extends …

[PDF][PDF] Contrasting the genetic architecture of 30 complex traits from summary association data

H Shi, G Kichaev, B Pasaniuc - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2016 - cell.com
Variance-component methods that estimate the aggregate contribution of large sets of
variants to the heritability of complex traits have yielded important insights into the genetic …

Signatures of negative selection in the genetic architecture of human complex traits

J Zeng, R De Vlaming, Y Wu, MR Robinson… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
We develop a Bayesian mixed linear model that simultaneously estimates single-nucleotide
polymorphism (SNP)-based heritability, polygenicity (proportion of SNPs with nonzero …

[PDF][PDF] Extreme polygenicity of complex traits is explained by negative selection

LJ O'Connor, AP Schoech, F Hormozdiari… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
Complex traits and common diseases are extremely polygenic, their heritability spread
across thousands of loci. One possible explanation is that thousands of genes and loci have …

Concepts, estimation and interpretation of SNP-based heritability

J Yang, J Zeng, ME Goddard, NR Wray, PM Visscher - Nature genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Narrow-sense heritability (h 2) is an important genetic parameter that quantifies the
proportion of phenotypic variance in a trait attributable to the additive genetic variation …

Statistical power to detect genetic (co) variance of complex traits using SNP data in unrelated samples

PM Visscher, G Hemani, AAE Vinkhuyzen… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
We have recently developed analysis methods (GREML) to estimate the genetic variance of
a complex trait/disease and the genetic correlation between two complex traits/diseases …