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Simple scaling laws control the architectures of human complex traits
Genome-wide association studies have revealed that the genetic architectures of complex traits vary widely, including in terms of the numbers, effect sizes, and allele frequencies of significant hits. However, at present we lack a principled way of understanding the similarities and differences among traits. In this talk I describe a model that combines mutation, drift, and stabilizing selection at individual sites with a genome-scale model of phenotypic variation. In this model, the architecture of a trait arises from the distribution of selection coefficients of mutations and from two scaling parameters. We fit the model for 95 diverse, highly polygenic quantitative traits from the UK Biobank. Surprisingly, we infer similar distributions of selection coefficients across all these traits. This shared distribution implies that differences in architectures of highly polygenic traits arise mainly from two scaling parameters: the mutational target size and heritability per site, which vary by orders of magnitude across traits. When these two scale factors are accounted for, the architectures of all 95 traits are nearly identical. This is joint work with Yuval Simons, Hakhamanesh Mostafavi, Courtney Smith and Guy Sella.
Date:
20 October 2022, 10:00
Venue:
Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details:
Richard Doll Lecture Theatre / To join remotely please put yourself on mute and use the following Teams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmeetup-join%2F19%3Ameeting_YTU1MTljZDMtNGY1OS00MTAzLTlkYzgtNDA3MzY3YzVmNTVh%40thread.v2%2F0%3Fcontext%3D%257b%2522Tid%2522%253a%2522cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%2522%252c%2522Oid%2522%253a%2522faee8eaf-f9bf-478e-9151-5bbfc3b39a0f%2522%257d%26anon%3Dtrue&type=meetup-join&deeplinkId=6a2aea20-754b-4ba7-b9a8-38977c362952&directDl=true&msLaunch=true&enableMobilePage=true&suppressPrompt=true
Speaker:
Professor Jonathan Pritchard (Stanford University)
Organising department:
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
Organiser:
Isabel Schmidt (University of Oxford, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
Host:
Dr Alex Mentzer
Part of:
WHG Seminars
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Isabel Schmidt
