Partitioning Heritability of Regulatory and Cell-Type-Specific Variants across 11 Common Diseases

0301 basic medicine Biomedical and clinical sciences Epidemiology disease architecture Inheritance Patterns Computer Simulation; Genetic Diseases, Inborn; Genetic Variation; Genome-Wide Association Study; Humans; Inheritance Patterns; Models, Genetic; Open Reading Frames; Regulatory Elements, Transcriptional; Genetics; Genetics (clinical) Expression Quantitative Genetics (incl. Disease and Trait Mapping Genetics) Medical and Health Sciences Genome-Wide Association Genotype Imputation Models GWAS Genetics(clinical) Regulatory Elements, Transcriptional genotype imputation Genetics & Heredity Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Loci Genomics Biological Sciences exome chips Dna Elements genome-wide association studies (GWASs) Genetic-Variation Genetic Diseases Transcriptional Snps coding variants 2716 Genetics (clinical) Psychiatry (incl. Psychotherapy) GWAS; schizophrenia; SNP trait heritability 610 Open Reading Frames 03 medical and health sciences 1311 Genetics Genetic SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being Health Sciences SWE-SCZ Consortium Genetics Humans Computer Simulation Prior Information Gene mapping complex-diseases genome-wide association study Models, Genetic Prevention Human Genome Genetic Diseases, Inborn Genetic Variation Regulatory Elements Large-Scale Inborn Schizophrenia genotype data Genome-Wide Association Study
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.10.004 Publication Date: 2014-11-06T16:45:20Z
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Regulatory and coding variants are known to be enriched with associations identified by genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of complex disease, but their contributions to trait heritability are currently unknown. We applied variance-component methods to imputed genotype data for 11 common diseases to partition the heritability explained by genotyped SNPs (hg(2)) across functional categories (while accounting for shared variance due to linkage disequilibrium). Extensive simulations showed that in contrast to current estimates from GWAS summary statistics, the variance-component approach partitions heritability accurately under a wide range of complex-disease architectures. Across the 11 diseases DNaseI hypersensitivity sites (DHSs) from 217 cell types spanned 16% of imputed SNPs (and 24% of genotyped SNPs) but explained an average of 79% (SE = 8%) of hg(2) from imputed SNPs (5.1× enrichment; p = 3.7 × 10(-17)) and 38% (SE = 4%) of hg(2) from genotyped SNPs (1.6× enrichment, p = 1.0 × 10(-4)). Further enrichment was observed at enhancer DHSs and cell-type-specific DHSs. In contrast, coding variants, which span 1% of the genome, explained <10% of hg(2) despite having the highest enrichment. We replicated these findings but found no significant contribution from rare coding variants in independent schizophrenia cohorts genotyped on GWAS and exome chips. Our results highlight the value of analyzing components of heritability to unravel the functional architecture of common disease.
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