[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 …

[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 …

[PDF][PDF] Local genetic correlation gives insights into the shared genetic architecture of complex traits

H Shi, N Mancuso, S Spendlove, B Pasaniuc - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
Although genetic correlations between complex traits provide valuable insights into
epidemiological and etiological studies, a precise quantification of which genomic regions …

[PDF][PDF] A powerful approach to estimating annotation-stratified genetic covariance via GWAS summary statistics

Q Lu, B Li, D Ou, M Erlendsdottir, RL Powles… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
Despite the success of large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWASs) on complex
traits, our understanding of their genetic architecture is far from complete. Jointly modeling …

[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 …

Genome-wide association studies of quantitative traits with related individuals: little (power) lost but much to be gained

PM Visscher, T Andrew, DR Nyholt - European Journal of Human …, 2008 - nature.com
For complex disease genetics research in human populations, remarkable progress has
been made in recent times with the publication of a number of genome-wide association …

[PDF][PDF] A multi-SNP locus-association method reveals a substantial fraction of the missing heritability

GB Ehret, D Lamparter, CJ Hoggart… - The American Journal of …, 2012 - cell.com
There are many known examples of multiple semi-independent associations at individual
loci; such associations might arise either because of true allelic heterogeneity or because of …

[PDF][PDF] The omnigenic model and polygenic prediction of complex traits

I Mathieson - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
The omnigenic model was proposed as a framework to understand the highly polygenic
architecture of complex traits revealed by genome-wide association studies (GWASs). I …

[PDF][PDF] Widespread allelic heterogeneity in complex traits

F Hormozdiari, A Zhu, G Kichaev, CJT Ju… - The American Journal of …, 2017 - cell.com
Recent successes in genome-wide association studies (GWASs) make it possible to
address important questions about the genetic architecture of complex traits, such as allele …

[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 …