Accurate estimation of SNP-heritability from biobank-scale data irrespective of genetic architecture.

ABSTRACT: SNP-heritability is a fundamental quantity in the study of complex traits. Recent studies have shown that existing methods to estimate genome-wide SNP-heritability can yield biases when their assumptions are violated. While various approaches have been proposed to account for frequency- and linkage disequilibrium (LD)-dependent genetic architectures, it remains unclear which estimates reported in the literature are reliable. Here we show that genome-wide SNP-heritability can be accurately estimated from biobank-scale data irrespective of genetic architecture, without specifying a heritability model or partitioning SNPs by allele frequency and/or LD. We show analytically and through extensive simulations starting from real genotypes (UK Biobank, N = 337 K) that, unlike existing methods, our

SUBMITTER: Hou K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6686906 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature