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ArticleGenetics2020

Deciphering Sex-Specific Genetic Architectures Using Local Bayesian Regressions.

Scott A Funkhouser, Ana I Vazquez, Juan P Steibel, Catherine W Ernst, Gustavo de Los Campos

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Article in Genetics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Scott A FunkhouserInstitute for Behavioral Genetics, The University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309 Scott.Funkhouser@colorado.edu gustavoc@msu.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-7798-6830
Ana I VazquezDepartments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Statistics and Probability, Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824.
Juan P SteibelDepartment of Animal Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824.
Catherine W ErnstDepartment of Animal Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824.
Gustavo de Los CamposDepartments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Statistics and Probability, Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824 Scott.Funkhouser@colorado.edu gustavoc@msu.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-5692-7129
Michigan State University · USUniversity of Colorado Boulder · US

Funding

Statistical Tools for Whole-Genome Prediction of Complex Traits and DiseasesR01GM101219 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI DE LOS CAMPOS, GUSTAVO · 2012 to 2017
$1.6M
Medical Research Council MC_PC_17228Medical Research Council MC_QA137853NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM101219
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many complex human traits exhibit differences between sexes. While numerous factors likely contribute to this phenomenon, growing evidence from genome-wide studies suggest a partial explanation: that males and females from the same population possess differing genetic architectures. Despite this, mapping gene-by-sex (G×S) interactions remains a challenge likely because the magnitude of such an interaction is typically and exceedingly small; traditional genome-wide association techniques may be underpowered to detect such events, due partly to the burden of multiple test correction. Here, we developed a local Bayesian regression (LBR) method to estimate sex-specific SNP marker effects after fully accounting for local linkage-disequilibrium (LD) patterns. This enabled us to infer sex-specific effects and G×S interactions either at the single SNP level, or by aggregating the effects of multiple SNPs to make inferences at the level of small LD-based regions. Using simulations in which there was imperfect LD between SNPs and causal variants, we showed that aggregating sex-specific marker effects with LBR provides improved power and resolution to detect G×S interactions over traditional single-SNP-based tests. When using LBR to analyze traits from the UK Biobank, we detected a relatively large G×S interaction impacting bone mineral density within

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GenotypeLinkage DisequilibriumBayes TheoremFemaleGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansMalePolymorphism, Single NucleotideQuantitative Trait LociSex FactorsBayesian methodsgene-by-sex interactionsGWAS

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PMID32198180
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