Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Widespread signatures of natural selection across human complex traits and functional genomic categories

  • Jian Zeng,
  • Angli Xue,
  • Longda Jiang,
  • Luke R. Lloyd-Jones,
  • Yang Wu,
  • Huanwei Wang,
  • Zhili Zheng,
  • Loic Yengo,
  • Kathryn E. Kemper,
  • Michael E. Goddard,
  • Naomi R. Wray,
  • Peter M. Visscher,
  • Jian Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21446-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Methods to study how natural selection shapes genetic architecture of complex traits rely on individual level genome-wide association study (GWAS) data. Here, the authors present a Bayesian method using GWAS summary statistics to study genetic architecture and apply this to 155 complex traits.