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ReviewPLoS genetics2021

Gene action, genetic variation, and GWAS: A user-friendly web tool.

Valentin Hivert, Naomi R Wray, Peter M Visscher

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Review in PLoS genetics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. From genetic variation to precision medicine.Cambridge prisms. Precision medicine · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Valentin HivertInstitute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-5144-6956
Naomi R WrayInstitute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-7421-3357
Peter M VisscherInstitute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fisher's partitioning of genotypic values and genetic variance is highly relevant in the current era of genome-wide association studies (GWASs). However, despite being more than a century old, a number of persistent misconceptions related to nonadditive genetic effects remain. We developed a user-friendly web tool, the Falconer ShinyApp, to show how the combination of gene action and allele frequencies at causal loci translate to genetic variance and genetic variance components for a complex trait. The app can be used to demonstrate the relationship between a SNP effect size estimated from GWAS and the variation the SNP generates in the population, i.e., how locus-specific effects lead to individual differences in traits. In addition, it can also be used to demonstrate how within and between locus interactions (dominance and epistasis, respectively) usually do not lead to a large amount of nonadditive variance relative to additive variance, and therefore, that these interactions usually do not explain individual differences in a population.

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Genetic VariationGenome-Wide Association StudyInternetSoftwareEpistasis, GeneticGene FrequencyGenesGenes, DominantGenetic LociGenotypeHumansModels, GeneticPolymorphism, Single Nucleotide

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PMID34014919
PMCPMC8136673

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