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Deep learning-based phenotype imputation on population-scale biobank data increases genetic discoveries.
Nat. Genet. 55, 2269-2276 (2023)
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
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
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)
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)