Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

被引:1551
作者
Lee, James J. [1 ]
Wedow, Robbee [2 ,3 ,4 ]
Okbay, Aysu [5 ,6 ]
Kong, Edward [7 ]
Maghzian, Omeed [7 ]
Zacher, Meghan [8 ]
Tuan Anh Nguyen-Viet [9 ]
Bowers, Peter [7 ]
Sidorenko, Julia [10 ,11 ]
Linner, Richard Karlsson [5 ,6 ]
Fontana, Mark Alan [13 ]
Kundu, Tushar [9 ]
Lee, Chanwook [7 ]
Li, Hui [7 ]
Li, Ruoxi [9 ]
Royer, Rebecca [9 ]
Timshel, Pascal N. [14 ,15 ]
Walters, Raymond K. [16 ,17 ]
Willoughby, Emily A. [1 ]
Yengo, Loic [10 ]
Alver, Maris [11 ]
Bao, Yanchun [18 ]
Clark, David W. [19 ]
Day, Felix R. [20 ]
Furlotte, Nicholas A. [21 ]
Joshi, Peter K. [19 ,22 ]
Kemper, Kathryn E. [10 ]
Kleinman, Aaron [21 ]
Langenberg, Claudia [20 ]
Magi, Reedik [11 ]
Trampush, Joey W. [23 ,24 ]
Verma, Shefali Setia [25 ]
Wu, Yang [10 ]
Lam, Max [26 ,27 ]
Zhao, Jing Hua [20 ]
Zheng, Zhili [10 ,28 ]
Boardman, Jason D. [2 ,3 ,4 ]
Campbell, Harry [19 ]
Freese, Jeremy [29 ]
Harris, Kathleen Mullan [30 ,31 ]
Hayward, Caroline [32 ]
Herd, Pamela [18 ,33 ]
Kumari, Meena [18 ]
Lencz, Todd [34 ,35 ,36 ,37 ]
Luan, Jian'an [20 ]
Malhotra, Anil K. [34 ,35 ,36 ,37 ]
Metspalu, Andres [11 ,38 ]
Milani, Lili [11 ]
Ong, Ken K. [20 ]
Perry, John R. B. [20 ]
机构
[1] Univ Minnesota Twin Cities, Dept Psychol, Minneapolis, MN USA
[2] Univ Colorado, Dept Sociol, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[3] Univ Colorado, Inst Behav Genet, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[4] Univ Colorado, Inst Behav Sci, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[5] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Dept Complex Trait Genet, Ctr Neurogen & Cognit Res, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[6] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Sch Business & Econ, Dept Econ, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[7] Harvard Univ, Dept Econ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[8] Harvard Univ, Dept Sociol, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[9] Univ Southern Calif, Ctr Econ & Social Res, Los Angeles, CA USA
[10] Univ Queensland, Inst Mol Biosci, Brisbane, Qld, Australia
[11] Univ Tartu, Estonian Genome Ctr, Tartu, Estonia
[12] Erasmus Univ, Inst Behav & Biol, Rotterdam, Netherlands
[13] Hosp Special Surg, Ctr Adv Value Musculoskeletal Care, 535 E 70th St, New York, NY 10021 USA
[14] Univ Copenhagen, Fac Hlth & Med Sci, Sect Metab Genet, Novo Nordisk Fdn Ctr Basic Metab Res, Copenhagen, Denmark
[15] Statens Serum Inst, Dept Epidemiol Res, Copenhagen, Denmark
[16] Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Analyt & Translat Genet Unit, Boston, MA 02114 USA
[17] MIT & Harvard, Stanley Ctr Psychiat Res, Broad Inst, Cambridge, MA USA
[18] Univ Essex, Inst Social & Econ Res, Colchester, Essex, England
[19] Univ Edinburgh, Usher Inst Populat Hlth Sci & Informat, Ctr Global Hlth Res, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
[20] Univ Cambridge, Inst Metab Sci, MRC Epidemiol Unit, Cambridge, England
[21] 23&Me Inc, Mountain View, CA USA
[22] Univ Lausanne Hosp, Inst Social & Prevent Med, Lausanne, Switzerland
[23] BrainWorkup LLC, Santa Monica, CA USA
[24] Univ Southern Calif, Keck Sch Med, Dept Psychiat & Behav Sci, Los Angeles, CA USA
[25] Geisinger Hlth Syst, Dept Biomed & Translat Informat, Danville, PA USA
[26] Inst Mental Hlth, Singapore, Singapore
[27] Genome Inst, Singapore, Singapore
[28] Wenzhou Med Univ, Sch Ophthalmol & Optometry, Eye Hosp, Wenzhou, Peoples R China
[29] Stanford Univ, Dept Sociol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[30] Univ North Carolina Chapel Hill, Dept Sociol, Chapel Hill, NC USA
[31] Univ North Carolina Chapel Hill, Carolina Populat Ctr, Chapel Hill, NC USA
[32] Univ Edinburgh, Inst Genet & Mol Med, MRC Human Genet Unit, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
[33] Univ Wisconsin, La Follette Sch Publ Affairs, Madison, WI USA
[34] Hofstra Northwell Sch Med, Dept Psychiat, Hempstead, NY USA
[35] Hofstra Northwell Sch Med, Dept Mol Med, Hempstead, NY USA
[36] Feinstein Inst Med Res, Ctr Psychiat Neurosci, Manhasset, NY USA
[37] Zucker Hillside Hosp, Psychiat Res, Glen Oaks, CA USA
[38] Univ Tartu, Inst Mol & Cell Biol, Tartu, Estonia
[39] Univ Edinburgh, Inst Genet & Mol Med, Ctr Genom & Expt Med, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
[40] Univ Dundee, Div Populat Hlth Sci, Ninewells Hosp, Dundee, Scotland
[41] Univ Dundee, Med Sch, Dundee, Scotland
[42] Univ Dundee, Med Res Inst, Dundee, Scotland
[43] Univ Toronto, Dept Econ, Toronto, ON, Canada
[44] Princeton Univ, Dept Sociol, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[45] Queens Univ, Sch Policy Studies, Kingston, ON, Canada
[46] New York Univ Shanghai, Dept Econ, Shanghai, Peoples R China
[47] Natl Bur Econ Res, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[48] Karolinska Inst, Depnt Med Epidemiol & Biostat, Stockholm, Sweden
[49] Uppsala Univ, Dept Govt, Uppsala, Sweden
[50] Univ Lausanne, Dept Computat Biol, Lausanne, Switzerland
基金
瑞典研究理事会; 英国生物技术与生命科学研究理事会;
关键词
MAPPING CAUSAL VARIANTS; HERITABILITY; METAANALYSIS; LOCI; GWAS; BRAIN;
D O I
10.1038/s41588-018-0147-3
中图分类号
Q3 [遗传学];
学科分类号
071007 ; 090102 ;
摘要
Here we conducted a large-scale genetic association analysis of educational attainment in a sample of approximately 1.1 million individuals and identify 1,271 independent genome-wide-significant SNPs. For the SNPs taken together, we found evidence of heterogeneous effects across environments. The SNPs implicate genes involved in brain-development processes and neuron-to-neuron communication. In a separate analysis of the X chromosome, we identify 10 independent genome-wide-significant SNPs and estimate a SNP heritability of around 0.3% in both men and women, consistent with partial dosage compensation. A joint (multi-phenotype) analysis of educational attainment and three related cognitive phenotypes generates polygenic scores that explain 11-13% of the variance in educational attainment and 7-10% of the variance in cognitive performance. This prediction accuracy substantially increases the utility of polygenic scores as tools in research.
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页码:1112 / +
页数:16
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