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Cell Press, American Journal of Human Genetics, 5(95), p. 535-552, 2014

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.10.004

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Partitioning Heritability of Regulatory and Cell-Type-Specific Variants across 11 Common Diseases

Journal article published in 2014 by Alexander Gusev, S. Hong Lee, Cgusev O'Dushlaine, Gosia Trynka, Working Schizophrenia, Hilary Finucane, Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson, Han Xu, Chongzhi Zang, Stephan Ripke, Brendan Bulik-Sullivan, Anna K. Kähler, Christina M. Hultman, Shaun M. Purcell, Steven A. McCarroll and other authors.
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Abstract

Regulatory and coding variants are known to be enriched with associations identified by genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of complex disease, but their contributions to trait heritability are currently unknown. We applied variance-component methods to imputed genotype data for 11 common diseases to partition the heritability explained by genotyped SNPs (hg(2)) across functional categories (while accounting for shared variance due to linkage disequilibrium). Extensive simulations showed that in contrast to current estimates from GWAS summary statistics, the variance-component approach partitions heritability accurately under a wide range of complex-disease architectures. Across the 11 diseases DNaseI hypersensitivity sites (DHSs) from 217 cell types spanned 16% of imputed SNPs (and 24% of genotyped SNPs) but explained an average of 79% (SE = 8%) of hg(2) from imputed SNPs (5.1× enrichment; p = 3.7 × 10(-17)) and 38% (SE = 4%) of hg(2) from genotyped SNPs (1.6× enrichment, p = 1.0 × 10(-4)). Further enrichment was observed at enhancer DHSs and cell-type-specific DHSs. In contrast, coding variants, which span 1% of the genome, explained