Rare genetic variants explain missing heritability in smoking.
Nat Hum Behav
; 6(11): 1577-1586, 2022 11.
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ABSTRACT
Common genetic variants explain less variation in complex phenotypes than inferred from family-based studies, and there is a debate on the source of this 'missing heritability'. We investigated the contribution of rare genetic variants to tobacco use with whole-genome sequences from up to 26,257 unrelated individuals of European ancestries and 11,743 individuals of African ancestries. Across four smoking traits, single-nucleotide-polymorphism-based heritability ([Formula see text]) was estimated from 0.13 to 0.28 (s.e., 0.10-0.13) in European ancestries, with 35-74% of it attributable to rare variants with minor allele frequencies between 0.01% and 1%. These heritability estimates are 1.5-4 times higher than past estimates based on common variants alone and accounted for 60% to 100% of our pedigree-based estimates of narrow-sense heritability ([Formula see text], 0.18-0.34). In the African ancestry samples, [Formula see text] was estimated from 0.03 to 0.33 (s.e., 0.09-0.14) across the four smoking traits. These results suggest that rare variants are important contributors to the heritability of smoking.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único
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Estudo de Associação Genômica Ampla
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Nat Hum Behav
Ano de publicação:
2022
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Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos