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Hidden heritability due to heterogeneity across seven populations.
ABSTRACT
Meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), which dominate genetic discovery are based on data from diverse historical time periods and populations. Genetic scores derived from GWAS explain only a fraction of the heritability estimates obtained from whole-genome studies on single populations, known as the 'hidden heritability' puzzle. Using seven sampling populations (N=35,062), we test whether hidden heritability is attributed to heterogeneity across sampling populations and time, showing that estimates are substantially smaller from across compared to within populations. We show that the hidden heritability varies substantially: from zero (height), to 20% for BMI, 37% for education, 40% for age at first birth and up to 75% for number of children. Simulations demonstrate that our results more likely reflect heterogeneity in phenotypic measurement or gene-environment interaction than genetic heterogeneity. These findings have substantial implications for genetic discovery, suggesting that large homogenous datasets are required for behavioural phenotypes and that gene-environment interaction may be a central challenge for genetic discovery.
DATE PUBLISHED
2017 Oct
HISTORY
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entrez 2017/10/21 06:00
pubmed 2017/10/21 06:00
medline 2017/10/21 06:01
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Tropf FC Tropf Felix C FC Department of Sociology/Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3UQ, UK. felix.tropf@sociology.ox.ac.uk.
Lee SH Lee S Hong SH School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2351, Australia.
Verweij RM Verweij Renske M RM Department of Sociology/Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9712 TG, The Netherlands.
Stulp G Stulp Gert G Department of Sociology/Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9712 TG, The Netherlands.
van der Most PJ van der Most Peter J PJ Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9700 RB, The Netherlands.
de Vlaming R de Vlaming Ronald R Department of Complex Trait Genetics, University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Bakshi A Bakshi Andrew A Institute of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
Briley DA Briley Daniel A DA Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, 61820-9998, USA.
Rahal C Rahal Charles C Department of Sociology/Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3UQ, UK.
Hellpap R Hellpap Robert R Department of Sociology/Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3UQ, UK.
Iliadou AN Iliadou Anastasia N AN Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, PO Box 281, Stockholm, SE-171 77, Sweden.
Esko T Esko Tõnu T Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia.
Metspalu A Metspalu Andres A Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, 51010, Tartu, Estonia.
Medland SE Medland Sarah E SE Quantitative Genetics Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, 4029, Australia.
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG Quantitative Genetics Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, 4029, Australia.
Barban N Barban Nicola N Department of Sociology/Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3UQ, UK.
Snieder H Snieder Harold H Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9700 RB, The Netherlands.
Robinson MR Robinson Matthew R MR Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland.
Mills MC Mills Melinda C MC Department of Sociology/Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3UQ, UK.
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VOLUME: 1
ISSUE: 10
TITLE: Nature human behaviour
ISOABBREVIATION: Nat Hum Behav
YEAR: 2017
MONTH: Oct
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CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 2397-3374
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MEDLINETA: Nat Hum Behav
COUNTRY: England
ISSNLINKING: 2397-3374
NLMUNIQUEID: 101697750
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KEYWORD
age at first birth
educational attainment
gene-environment interaction
hidden heritability
human reproduction
missing heritability
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