Within-sibship genome-wide association analyses decrease bias in estimates of direct genetic effects

Laurence J. Howe, Michel G. Nivard, Tim Morris, Ailin Falkmo Hansen, Humaira Rasheed, Yoonsu Cho, Geetha Chittoor, Rafael Ahlskog, Penelope A. Lind, Teemu Palviainen, Matthijs D. van der Zee, Rosa Cheesman, Massimo Mangino, Yunzhang Wang, Shuai Li, Lucija Klaric, Scott M. Ratliff, Lawrence F. Bielak, Marianne Nygaard, Alexandros Giannelis, Emily A. Willoughby, Chandra A. Reynolds, Jared V. Balbona, Ole A. Andreassen, Helga Ask, Aris Baras, Christopher R. Bauer, Dorret I. Boomsma, Archie Campbell, Harry Campbell, Zhengming Chen, Paraskevi Christofidou, Elizabeth C. Corfield, Christina C. Dahm, Deepika Dokuru, Luke M. Evans, Eco J. C. de Geus, Sudheer Giddaluru, Scott D. Gordon, K. Paige Harden, W. David Hill, Amanda Hughes, Shona M. Kerr, Yongkang Kim, Hyeokmoon Kweon, Antti Latvala, Debbie A. Lawlor, Liming Li, Kuang Lin, Per Magnus, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Travis T. Mallard, Pekka Martikainen, Melinda C. Mills, Pål R. Njølstad, John D. Overton, Nancy L. Pedersen, David J. Porteous, Jeffrey G. Reid, Karri Silventoinen, Melissa C. Southey, Camilla Stoltenberg, Elliot M. Tucker–Drob, Margaret J. Wright, Hyeokmoon Kweon, Philipp Koellinger, Daniel J. Benjamin, Patrick Turley, Laurence J. Howe, Michel G. Nivard, Tim Morris, Ailin Falkmo Hansen, Humaira Rasheed, Yoonsu Cho, Geetha Chittoor, Rafael Ahlskog, Penelope A. Lind, Teemu Palviainen, Matthijs D. van der Zee, Rosa Cheesman, Massimo Mangino, Yunzhang Wang, Shuai Li, Lucija Klaric, Scott M. Ratliff, Lawrence F. Bielak, Marianne Nygaard, Alexandros Giannelis, Emily A. Willoughby, Chandra A. Reynolds, Jared V. Balbona, Ole A. Andreassen, Helga Ask, Dorret I. Boomsma, Archie Campbell, Harry Campbell, Zhengming Chen, Paraskevi Christofidou, Elizabeth C. Corfield, Christina C. Dahm

Nature Genetics · 2022

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Summary

Estimates from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of unrelated individuals capture effects of inherited variation (direct effects), demography (population stratification, assortative mating) and relatives (indirect genetic effects). Family-based GWAS designs can control for demographic and indirect genetic effects, but large-scale family datasets have been lacking. We combined data from 178,086 siblings from 19 cohorts to generate population (between-family) and within-sibship (within-family) GWAS estimates for 25 phenotypes. Within-sibship GWAS estimates were smaller than population estimates for height, educational attainment, age at first birth, number of children, cognitive ability, depressive symptoms and smoking. Some differences were observed in downstream SNP heritability, gene

Source type: Peer-reviewed study
DOI: 10.1038/s41588-022-01062-7
Catalogue ID: SNmohbb1x6-vcjc3d

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