Accurate and efficient estimation of local heritability using summary statistics and the linkage disequilibrium matrix

Abstract Existing SNP-heritability estimators that leverage summary statistics from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are much less efficient (i.e., have larger standard errors) than the restricted maximum likelihood (REML) estimators which require access to individual-level data. We introduce...

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Main Authors: Hui Li, Rahul Mazumder, Xihong Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43565-9

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