An atlas of genetic correlations across human diseases and traits

Brendan Bulik-Sullivan; Hilary K Finucane; Verneri Anttila; Alexander Gusev; Felix R Day; Po-Ru Loh; ReproGen Consortium; Psychiatric Genomics Consortium; Genetic Consortium for Anorexia Nervosa (GCAN); Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 3 (WTCCC3); Laramie Duncan; John R B Perry; Nick Patterson; Elise B Robinson; Mark J Daly; Alkes L Price; Benjamin M Neale

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An atlas of genetic correlations across human diseases and traits

Brendan Bulik-Sullivan^*
, Hilary K Finucane^*
, Verneri Anttila
, Alexander Gusev
, Felix R Day
, Po-Ru Loh
, ReproGen Consortium
, Psychiatric Genomics Consortium
, Genetic Consortium for Anorexia Nervosa (GCAN)
, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 3 (WTCCC3)
, Laramie Duncan
, John R B Perry
, Nick Patterson
, Elise B Robinson
, Mark J Daly
, Alkes L Price^*
, Benjamin M Neale^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine

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Abstract

Identifying genetic correlations between complex traits and diseases can provide useful etiological insights and help prioritize likely causal relationships. The major challenges preventing estimation of genetic correlation from genome-wide association study (GWAS) data with current methods are the lack of availability of individual-level genotype data and widespread sample overlap among meta-analyses. We circumvent these difficulties by introducing a technique-cross-trait LD Score regression-for estimating genetic correlation that requires only GWAS summary statistics and is not biased by sample overlap. We use this method to estimate 276 genetic correlations among 24 traits. The results include genetic correlations between anorexia nervosa and schizophrenia, anorexia and obesity, and educational attainment and several diseases. These results highlight the power of genome-wide analyses, as there currently are no significantly associated SNPs for anorexia nervosa and only three for educational attainment.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1236-1241
Number of pages	6
Journal	Nature Genetics
Volume	47
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3406
Publication status	Published - Nov 2015

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Bulik-Sullivan, B., Finucane, H. K., Anttila, V., Gusev, A., Day, F. R., Loh, P.-R., ReproGen Consortium, Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Genetic Consortium for Anorexia Nervosa (GCAN), Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 3 (WTCCC3), Duncan, L., Perry, J. R. B., Patterson, N., Robinson, E. B., Daly, M. J., Price, A. L., & Neale, B. M. (2015). An atlas of genetic correlations across human diseases and traits. Nature Genetics, 47(11), 1236-1241. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3406

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