Efficient variance components analysis across millions of genomes

Variance components analysis may be used for a variety of applications including heritability estimation and association mapping. Here, the authors present a computationally efficient method, scalable to extremely large GWAS datasets, and use it for heritabilty analysis of 22 traits from UK Biobank

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ali Pazokitoroudi, Yue Wu, Kathryn S. Burch, Kangcheng Hou, Aaron Zhou, Bogdan Pasaniuc, Sriram Sankararaman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17576-9