Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

The impact of non-additive genetic associations on age-related complex diseases

  • Marta Guindo-Martínez,
  • Ramon Amela,
  • Silvia Bonàs-Guarch,
  • Montserrat Puiggròs,
  • Cecilia Salvoro,
  • Irene Miguel-Escalada,
  • Caitlin E. Carey,
  • Joanne B. Cole,
  • Sina Rüeger,
  • Elizabeth Atkinson,
  • Aaron Leong,
  • Friman Sanchez,
  • Cristian Ramon-Cortes,
  • Jorge Ejarque,
  • Duncan S. Palmer,
  • Mitja Kurki,
  • FinnGen Consortium,
  • Krishna Aragam,
  • Jose C. Florez,
  • Rosa M. Badia,
  • Josep M. Mercader,
  • David Torrents

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21952-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Most genome-wide association studies assume an additive model, exclude the X chromosome, and use one reference panel. Here, the authors implement a strategy including non-additive models and find that the number of loci for age-related traits increases as compared to the additive model alone.