An atlas of genetic correlations across human diseases and traits

B Bulik-Sullivan, HK Finucane, V Anttila, A Gusev… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Identifying genetic correlations between complex traits and diseases can provide useful
etiological insights and help prioritize likely causal relationships. The major challenges …

High-definition likelihood inference of genetic correlations across human complex traits

Z Ning, Y Pawitan, X Shen - Nature genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Genetic correlation is a central parameter for understanding shared genetic architecture
between complex traits. By using summary statistics from genome-wide association studies …

Bivariate causal mixture model quantifies polygenic overlap between complex traits beyond genetic correlation

O Frei, D Holland, OB Smeland, AA Shadrin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Accumulating evidence from genome wide association studies (GWAS) suggests an
abundance of shared genetic influences among complex human traits and disorders, such …

Detection and interpretation of shared genetic influences on 42 human traits

JK Pickrell, T Berisa, JZ Liu, L Ségurel, JY Tung… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
We performed a scan for genetic variants associated with multiple phenotypes by comparing
large genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of 42 traits or diseases. We identified 341 …

Genetic correlations of polygenic disease traits: from theory to practice

W Van Rheenen, WJ Peyrot, AJ Schork… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The genetic correlation describes the genetic relationship between two traits and can
contribute to a better understanding of the shared biological pathways and/or the causality …

Genomic structural equation modelling provides insights into the multivariate genetic architecture of complex traits

AD Grotzinger, M Rhemtulla, R de Vlaming… - Nature human …, 2019 - nature.com
Genetic correlations estimated from genome-wide association studies (GWASs) reveal
pervasive pleiotropy across a wide variety of phenotypes. We introduce genomic structural …

Estimation of complex effect-size distributions using summary-level statistics from genome-wide association studies across 32 complex traits

Y Zhang, G Qi, JH Park, N Chatterjee - Nature genetics, 2018 - nature.com
We developed a likelihood-based approach for analyzing summary-level statistics and
external linkage disequilibrium information to estimate effect-size distributions of common …

Conditional and joint multiple-SNP analysis of GWAS summary statistics identifies additional variants influencing complex traits

J Yang, T Ferreira, AP Morris, SE Medland… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
We present an approximate conditional and joint association analysis that can use summary-
level statistics from a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and …

[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 …

Integration of summary data from GWAS and eQTL studies predicts complex trait gene targets

Z Zhu, F Zhang, H Hu, A Bakshi, MR Robinson… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands of genetic variants
associated with human complex traits. However, the genes or functional DNA elements …