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A genome-wide association study of blood cell morphology identifies cellular proteins implicated in disease aetiology

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Τίτλος: A genome-wide association study of blood cell morphology identifies cellular proteins implicated in disease aetiology
Συγγραφείς: Akbari, P, Vuckovic, D, Stefanucci, L, Jiang, T, Kundu, K, Kreuzhuber, R, Bao, EL, Collins, JH, Downes, K, Grassi, L, Guerrero, JA, Kaptoge, S, Knight, JC, Meacham, S, Sambrook, J, Seyres, D, Stegle, O, Verboon, JM, Walter, K, Watkins, NA, Danesh, J, Roberts, DJ, Di Angelantonio, E, Sankaran, VG, Frontini, M
Στοιχεία εκδότη: Nature Research
Έτος έκδοσης: 2026
Συλλογή: Oxford University Research Archive (ORA)
Περιγραφή: Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of high-dimensional traits, such as blood cell or metabolic traits, often use univariate approaches, ignoring trait relationships. Biological mechanisms generating variation in high-dimensional traits can be captured parsimoniously through a GWAS of latent factors. Here, we introduce flashfmZero, a zero-correlation latent-factor-based multi-trait fine-mapping approach. In an application to 25 latent factors derived from 99 blood cell traits in the INTERVAL cohort, we show that latent factor GWASs enable the detection of signals generating sub-threshold associations with several blood cell traits. The 99% credible sets (CS99) from flashfmZero were equal to or smaller in size than those from univariate fine-mapping of blood cell traits in 87% of our comparisons. In all cases univariate latent factor CS99 contained those from flashfmZero. Our latent factor approaches can be applied to GWAS summary statistics and will enhance power for the discovery and fine-mapping of associations for many traits
Τύπος εγγράφου: article in journal/newspaper
Γλώσσα: English
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40679-y
Διαθεσιμότητα: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40679-y
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:77e425e8-e424-424b-a09e-a4434c72a747
Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; CC Attribution (CC BY)
Αριθμός Καταχώρησης: edsbas.39A78D0C
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