TY - JOUR
T1 - An integrated framework for local genetic correlation analysis
AU - Werme, Josefin
AU - van der Sluis, Sophie
AU - Posthuma, Danielle
AU - de Leeuw, Christiaan A.
N1 - Funding Information: This work was funded by COSYN (Comorbidity and Synapse Biology in Clinically Overlapping Psychiatric Disorders: Horizon 2020 Program of the European Union under RIA grant agreement 667301, D.P.) and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (VICI 435-14-005, D.P.). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. The analyses were carried out on the Genetic Cluster Computer, which is financed by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (480-05-003, D.P.), VU University (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and the Dutch Brain Foundation, hosted by the Dutch National Computing and Networking Services SurfSARA. Funding Information: C.A.d.L. is funded by Hoffman-La Roche. The other authors declare no competing interests. Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc.
PY - 2022/3/1
Y1 - 2022/3/1
N2 - Genetic correlation (rg) analysis is used to identify phenotypes that may have a shared genetic basis. Traditionally, rg is studied globally, considering only the average of the shared signal across the genome, although this approach may fail when the rg is confined to particular genomic regions or in opposing directions at different loci. Current tools for local rg analysis are restricted to analysis of two phenotypes. Here we introduce LAVA, an integrated framework for local rg analysis that, in addition to testing the standard bivariate local rgs between two phenotypes, can evaluate local heritabilities and analyze conditional genetic relations between several phenotypes using partial correlation and multiple regression. Applied to 25 behavioral and health phenotypes, we show considerable heterogeneity in the bivariate local rgs across the genome, which is often masked by the global rg patterns, and demonstrate how our conditional approaches can elucidate more complex, multivariate genetic relations.
AB - Genetic correlation (rg) analysis is used to identify phenotypes that may have a shared genetic basis. Traditionally, rg is studied globally, considering only the average of the shared signal across the genome, although this approach may fail when the rg is confined to particular genomic regions or in opposing directions at different loci. Current tools for local rg analysis are restricted to analysis of two phenotypes. Here we introduce LAVA, an integrated framework for local rg analysis that, in addition to testing the standard bivariate local rgs between two phenotypes, can evaluate local heritabilities and analyze conditional genetic relations between several phenotypes using partial correlation and multiple regression. Applied to 25 behavioral and health phenotypes, we show considerable heterogeneity in the bivariate local rgs across the genome, which is often masked by the global rg patterns, and demonstrate how our conditional approaches can elucidate more complex, multivariate genetic relations.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01017-y
DO - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01017-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 35288712
SN - 1061-4036
VL - 54
SP - 274
EP - 282
JO - Nature Genetics
JF - Nature Genetics
IS - 3
ER -