Evidence of epistasis in regions of long-range linkage disequilibrium across five complex diseases in the UK Biobank and eMERGE datasets

上位性 连锁不平衡 生物 全基因组关联研究 遗传学 遗传建筑学 遗传关联 进化生物学 生命银行 数量性状位点 计算生物学 单核苷酸多态性 基因 基因型
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Pankhuri Singhal,Yogasudha Veturi,Scott M. Dudek,Anastasia Lucas,Alex T. Frase,Steven J Schrodi,David Fasel,Chunhua Weng,Rion Pendergrass,Daniel J. Schaid,Iftikhar J. Kullo,Ozan Dikilitas,Patrick Sleiman,Hakon Hakonarson,Jason H. Moore,Scott M. Williams,Marylyn D. Ritchie,Shefali S. Verma
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期刊:Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - medRxiv
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DOI:10.1101/2022.10.19.22280888
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Abstract Leveraging linkage disequilibrium (LD) patterns as representative of population substructure enables the discovery of additive association signals in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Standard GWAS are well-powered to interrogate additive models; however, new approaches are required to investigate other modes of inheritance such as dominance and epistasis. Epistasis, or non-additive interaction between genes, exists across the genome but often goes undetected due to lack of statistical power. Furthermore, the adoption of LD pruning as customary in standard GWAS excludes detection of sites in LD that may underlie the genetic architecture of complex traits. We hypothesize that uncovering long-range interactions between loci with strong LD due to epistatic selection can elucidate genetic mechanisms underlying common diseases. To investigate this hypothesis, we tested for associations between 23 common diseases and 5,625,845 epistatic SNP-SNP pairs (determined by Ohta’s D statistics) in long-range LD (> 0.25cM). We identified five significant associations across five disease phenotypes that replicated in two large genotype-phenotype datasets (UK Biobank and eMERGE). The genes that were most likely involved in the replicated associations were 1) members of highly conserved gene families with complex roles in multiple pathways, 2) essential genes, and/or 3) associated in the literature with complex traits that display variable expressivity. These results support the highly pleiotropic and conserved nature of variants in long-range under epistatic selection. Our work supports the hypothesis that epistatic interactions regulate diverse clinical mechanisms and may especially be driving factors in conditions with a wide range of phenotypic outcomes. Significance Current knowledge of genotype-phenotype relationships is largely contingent on traditional univariate approaches to genomic analysis. Yet substantial evidence supports non-additive modes of inheritance and regulation, such as epistasis, as being abundant across the genome. In this genome-wide study, we probe the biomolecular mechanisms underlying complex human diseases by testing the association of pairwise genetic interactions with disease occurrence in large-scale biobank data. Specifically, we tested intrachromosomal and interchrosomal long-range interactions between regions of the genome in high linkage disequilibrium, these regions are typically excluded from genomic analyses. The results from this study suggest that essential gene, members of highly conserved gene families, and phenotypes with variable expressivity, are particularly enriched with epistatic and pleiotropic activity.
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