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ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2025

Towards improved fine-mapping of candidate causal variants.

Zheng Li, Xiang Zhou

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Review in Nature reviews. Genetics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  20. Common and rare variant genetic contributions in African Americans with autism.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Zheng LiDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5826-1316
Xiang ZhouDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. xzhousph@umich.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4331-7599

Funding

Statistical Methods for Modeling Polygenic Architecture in Association and Re-sequencing StudiesR01HG009124 · NHGRI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Xiang Zhou · 2017 to 2026
$3.0M
DMS/NIGMS 2: Advanced Statistical Methods for Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics StudiesR01GM144960 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ZHOU, XIANG · 2021 to 2024
$1.3M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG009124NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM144960
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fine-mapping in genome-wide association studies aims to identify potentially causal genetic variants among a set of candidate variants that are often highly correlated with each other owing to linkage disequilibrium. A variety of statistical approaches are used in fine-mapping, almost all of which are based on a multiple regression framework to model the relationship between genotype and phenotype, while accommodating specific assumptions about the distribution of variant effect sizes and using different inference algorithms. Owing to their modelling flexibility and the ease of making inferential statements, these approaches are predominantly Bayesian in nature. Recently, these approaches have been improved by refining modelling assumptions, integrating additional information, accommodating summary statistics, and developing scalable computational algorithms that improve computation efficiency and fine-mapping resolution.

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Chromosome MappingGenetic VariationGenome-Wide Association StudyAlgorithmsBayes TheoremHumansLinkage DisequilibriumModels, GeneticPhenotypePolymorphism, Single Nucleotide

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PMID40721533
PMCPMC12458647

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