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An, U.* ; Pazokitoroudi, A.* ; Alvarez, M.* ; Huang, L. ; Bacanu, S.A.* ; Schork, A.J.* ; Kendler, K.* ; Pajukanta, P.* ; Flint, J.* ; Zaitlen, N.* ; Cai, N. ; Dahl, A.* ; Sankararaman, S.*

Deep learning-based phenotype imputation on population-scale biobank data increases genetic discoveries.

Nat. Genet. 55, 2269-2276 (2023)
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Biobanks that collect deep phenotypic and genomic data across many individuals have emerged as a key resource in human genetics. However, phenotypes in biobanks are often missing across many individuals, limiting their utility. We propose AutoComplete, a deep learning-based imputation method to impute or ‘fill-in’ missing phenotypes in population-scale biobank datasets. When applied to collections of phenotypes measured across ~300,000 individuals from the UK Biobank, AutoComplete substantially improved imputation accuracy over existing methods. On three traits with notable amounts of missingness, we show that AutoComplete yields imputed phenotypes that are genetically similar to the originally observed phenotypes while increasing the effective sample size by about twofold on average. Further, genome-wide association analyses on the resulting imputed phenotypes led to a substantial increase in the number of associated loci. Our results demonstrate the utility of deep learning-based phenotype imputation to increase power for genetic discoveries in existing biobank datasets.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
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Keywords Genome-wide Association; Ld Score Regression; Dna
ISSN (print) / ISBN 1061-4036
e-ISSN 1546-1718
Journal Nature Genetics
Quellenangaben Volume: 55, Issue: 12, Pages: 2269-2276 Article Number: , Supplement: ,
Publisher Nature Publishing Group
Publishing Place New York, NY
Non-patent literature Publications
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
Institute(s) Helmholtz Pioneer Campus (HPC)
Grants Lundbeckfonden (Lundbeck Foundation)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH)
NSF | Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
NSF | Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering | Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (Information & Intelligent Systems)
NSF | BIO | Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI)
National Science Foundation (NSF)