Genomic prediction of complex human traits: relatedness, trait architecture and predictive meta-models

A Spiliopoulou, R Nagy, ML Bermingham… - Human molecular …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We explore the prediction of individuals' phenotypes for complex traits using genomic data.
We compare several widely used prediction models, including Ridge Regression, LASSO …

Genetic architecture of complex traits and disease risk predictors

SY Yong, TG Raben, L Lello, SDH Hsu - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Genomic prediction of complex human traits (eg, height, cognitive ability, bone density) and
disease risks (eg, breast cancer, diabetes, heart disease, atrial fibrillation) has advanced …

Beyond missing heritability: prediction of complex traits

R Makowsky, NM Pajewski, YC Klimentidis… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Despite rapid advances in genomic technology, our ability to account for phenotypic
variation using genetic information remains limited for many traits. This has unfortunately …

Projecting the performance of risk prediction based on polygenic analyses of genome-wide association studies

N Chatterjee, B Wheeler, J Sampson, P Hartge… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
We report a new method to estimate the predictive performance of polygenic models for risk
prediction and assess predictive performance for ten complex traits or common diseases …

Will big data close the missing heritability gap?

H Kim, A Grueneberg, AI Vazquez, S Hsu… - Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Modern biobanks that collect genotype-phenotype information from hundreds of thousands
of individuals bring unprecedented opportunities for genomic... Despite the important …

Application of high-dimensional feature selection: evaluation for genomic prediction in man

ML Bermingham, R Pong-Wong, A Spiliopoulou… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
In this study, we investigated the effect of five feature selection approaches on the
performance of a mixed model (G-BLUP) and a Bayesian (Bayes C) prediction method. We …

A machine-learning heuristic to improve gene score prediction of polygenic traits

G Paré, S Mao, WQ Deng - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Machine-learning techniques have helped solve a broad range of prediction
problems, yet are not widely used to build polygenic risk scores for the prediction of complex …

Improved genetic prediction of complex traits from individual-level data or summary statistics

Q Zhang, F Privé, B Vilhjálmsson, D Speed - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Most existing tools for constructing genetic prediction models begin with the assumption that
all genetic variants contribute equally towards the phenotype. However, this represents a …

Negative selection on complex traits limits phenotype prediction accuracy between populations

A Durvasula, KE Lohmueller - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Phenotype prediction is a key goal for medical genetics. Unfortunately, most genome-wide
association studies are done in European populations, which reduces the accuracy of …

Accurate genomic prediction of human height

L Lello, SG Avery, L Tellier, AI Vazquez… - Genetics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Hsu et al. used advanced methods from machine learning to analyze almost half a million
genomes. They produced, for the first time, accurate genomic predictors for complex traits …