
eLife, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 12
Published: Sept. 12, 2023
Continued methodological advances have enabled numerous statistical approaches for the analysis of summary statistics from genome-wide association studies. Genetic correlation within specific regions enables a new strategy identifying pleiotropy. Genomic with significant ‘local’ genetic correlations can be investigated further using state-of-the-art methodologies fine-mapping and variant colocalisation. We explored utility local approach overlaps between candidate neuropsychiatric disorders, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia. The identified several associations traits, majority which were loci in human leukocyte antigen region. Colocalisation suggested that disease-implicated variants these often differ traits and, one locus, indicated shared causal ALS AD. Our study might play role multiple diseases distinct mechanisms across despite loci. colocalisation protocol designed this has been implemented flexible pipeline produces HTML reports is available at: https://github.com/ThomasPSpargo/COLOC-reporter.
Language: Английский