Regulatory variants explain much more heritability than coding variants across 11 common diseases
Alexander Gusev, S Hong Lee, Benjamin M Neale, Gosia Trynka, Bjarni J Vilhjalmsson, Hilary Finucane, Han Xu, Chongzhi Zang, Stephan Ripke, Eli Stahl, n/a Schizophrenia Working Group of the PGC, n/a SWE-SCZ Consortium, Anna K Kahler, Christina M Hultman, Shaun M Purcell, , Alkes L Price
The paper shows regulatory variants explain significantly more heritability than coding variants for 11 diseases, using imputed data across 218 cell types.
bioRxiv · Apr 21, 2014 · PreprintGenetics