Population-specific causal disease effect sizes in functionally important regions impacted by selection

Trans-ethnic genetic correlation is significantly less than 1 for many diseases. Here, the authors stratify this correlation by genomic annotations, finding that loci whose causal disease effect sizes differ between ethnicities are likely impacted by selection, particularly positive selection.

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Auteurs principaux: Huwenbo Shi, Steven Gazal, Masahiro Kanai, Evan M. Koch, Armin P. Schoech, Katherine M. Siewert, Samuel S. Kim, Yang Luo, Tiffany Amariuta, Hailiang Huang, Yukinori Okada, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Shamil R. Sunyaev, Alkes L. Price
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Publié: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/2dfa2cb15c014c84868e29d583709f8c
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