title: Detection and interpretation of shared genetic influences on 42 human traits.
abstract: We performed a scan for genetic variants associated with multiple phenotypes by comparing large genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of 42 traits or diseases. We identified 341 loci (at a false discovery rate of 10%) associated with multiple traits. Several loci are associated with multiple phenotypes; for example, a nonsynonymous variant in the zinc transporter SLC39A8 influences seven of the traits, including risk of schizophrenia (rs13107325: log-transformed odds ratio (log OR) = 0.15, P = 2 × 10(-12)) and Parkinson disease (log OR = -0.15, P = 1.6 × 10(-7)), among others. Second, we used these loci to identify traits that have multiple genetic causes in common. For example, variants associated with increased risk of schizophrenia also tended to be associated with increased risk of inflammatory bowel disease. Finally, we developed a method to identify pairs of traits that show evidence of a causal relationship. For example, we show evidence that increased body mass index causally increases triglyceride levels.
authors.affiliation: New York Genome Center, New York, New York, USA.|Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Joseph K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Pickrell
authors.affiliation: New York Genome Center, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Tomaz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Berisa
authors.affiliation: New York Genome Center, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Jimmy Z
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-8379-5480
authors.initials: JZ
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: UMR 7206 Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie, CNRS, MNHN, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Laure
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ségurel
authors.affiliation: 23andMe, Inc., Mountain View, California, USA.
authors.forename: Joyce Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Tung
authors.affiliation: 23andMe, Inc., Mountain View, California, USA.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Hinds
mesh_terms: D015992:Body Mass Index; D058685:Genetic Pleiotropy / Q000235:genetics*; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study; D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000235:genetics*; D020412:Multifactorial Inheritance / Q000235:genetics*; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000235:genetics*; D010641:Phenotype; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / Q000235:genetics*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000235:genetics*; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D014280:Triglycerides