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 ABO, and replicated many previously detected large-magnitude G×S interactions impacting waist-to-hip ratio. We also discovered many new G×S interactions impacting such traits as height and body mass index (BMI) within regions of the genome where both male- and female-specific effects explain a small proportion of phenotypic variance (R2 < 1 × 10-4), but are enriched in known expression quantitative trait loci.
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Geneticsjournal_title
Geneticsauthors
Funkhouser SA,Vazquez AI,Steibel JP,Ernst CW,Los Campos Gdoi
10.1534/genetics.120.303120subject
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2020-05-01 00:00:00pages
231-241issue
1eissn
0016-6731issn
1943-2631pii
genetics.120.303120journal_volume
215pub_type
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