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Dominance Genetic Variation Contributes Little to the Missing Heritability for Human Complex Traits
Authors:Zhihong Zhu  Andrew Bakshi  Anna?AE Vinkhuyzen  Gibran Hemani  Sang?Hong Lee  Ilja?M Nolte  Jana?V van?Vliet-Ostaptchouk  Harold Snieder  The LifeLines Cohort Study  Tonu Esko  Lili Milani  Reedik M?gi  Andres Metspalu  William?G Hill  Bruce?S Weir  Michael?E Goddard  Peter?M Visscher  Jian Yang
Abstract:For human complex traits, non-additive genetic variation has been invoked to explain “missing heritability,” but its discovery is often neglected in genome-wide association studies. Here we propose a method of using SNP data to partition and estimate the proportion of phenotypic variance attributed to additive and dominance genetic variation at all SNPs (hSNP2 and δSNP2) in unrelated individuals based on an orthogonal model where the estimate of hSNP2 is independent of that of δSNP2. With this method, we analyzed 79 quantitative traits in 6,715 unrelated European Americans. The estimate of δSNP2 averaged across all the 79 quantitative traits was 0.03, approximately a fifth of that for additive variation (average hSNP2 = 0.15). There were a few traits that showed substantial estimates of δSNP2, none of which were replicated in a larger sample of 11,965 individuals. We further performed genome-wide association analyses of the 79 quantitative traits and detected SNPs with genome-wide significant dominance effects only at the ABO locus for factor VIII and von Willebrand factor. All these results suggest that dominance variation at common SNPs explains only a small fraction of phenotypic variation for human complex traits and contributes little to the missing narrow-sense heritability problem.
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