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Biometrical Genetics. 2014 International Workshop on Statistical Genetic Methods for Human Complex Traits Boulder, CO . Lindon Eaves, VIPBG, Richmond VA. March 2014. Biometrical Genetics. How do genes contribute to statistics (e.g. means, variances , skewness , kurtosis)?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Biometrical Genetics
2014 International Workshop on Statistical Genetic Methodsfor Human Complex Traits
Boulder, CO.Lindon Eaves,
VIPBG, Richmond VA.March 2014
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Biometrical Genetics
How do genes contribute to statistics (e.g. means, variances, skewness,
kurtosis)?
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Some Literature:Mather K (1949) Biometrical Genetics: the Study of Continuous Variation. London UK: Methuen.
Mather K, Jinks JL (1982) Biometrical Genetics: the Study of Continuous Variation (3rd Ed.). London UK: Chapman Hall.
Jinks JL, Fulker DW (1970): Comparison of the biometrical genetical, MAVA, and classical approaches to the analysis of human behavior. Psychol Bull 73(5):311-349.
Kearsy MJ, Pooni HS (1996) The Genetic Analysis of Quantitative Traits. London UK: Chapman Hall.
Falconer DS, Mackay TFC (1996). Introduction to Quantitative Genetics, 4th Ed. Harlow, UK: Addison Wesley Longman.
Neale MC, Cardon LR (1992). Methodology for Genetic Studies of Twins and Families. Ch 3. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publisher. (See revised ed. Neale and Maes, pdf on VIPBG website)
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Requires synthesis of two intellectual traditions…..
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“Mendelian” Crosses with Quantitative Traits
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Mendelian Basis of Continuous Variation? Experimental Breeding Experiments
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Ronald Fisher (1890-1962)
1918: The Correlation Between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance1921: Introduced concept of “likelihood”
1930: The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection1935: The Design of Experiments
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Fisher (1918): Basic Ideas
• Continuous variation caused by lots of genes (“polygenic inheritance”)
• Each gene followed Mendel’s laws• Environment smoothed out genetic differences• Genes may show different degrees of “dominance”• Genes may have many forms (“mutliple alleles”)• Mating may not be random (“assortative mating”)• Showed that correlations obtained by e.g. Pearson
and Lee were explained well by polygenic inheritance
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Distribution of scores produced by two genes(N=1000 subjects)
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The "smoothing" effect of the environment(N=1000 subjects, 2 gene model)
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Continuous distribution of polygenic trait (100 genes with small cumulative effects)
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Kenneth Mather, FRS (1911-1990) John Jinks, FRS (1929-1987)
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“Biometrical Genetics”
• Parsimonious specification of genetic influences in terms of effects and frequencies of individual genes (“model-building”)
• “Sensitivity to the environment” (GxE) is a phenotype like any other and analyzed with similar models
• rGE modeled by specifying genetic effects on environment e.g. effects of sibling and maternal genotype on home environment
• Systematic approach to choosing between different interpretations of the same data (“model-fitting”) e.g. effects of maternal genotype
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Biometrical Genetics
• Worked out on experimental organisms• Experimental manipulation of genotype –
inbreeding and crossing• Experimental control of environment –
measurement and randomization• Large, powerful, randomized genetic studies reveal
subtleties of genetic systems – dominance, epistasis, linkage, GxE, environmental effects of genes, number of genes, genetic correlation, development…..
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Model organisms
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SCALE!!!!!
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A “Good” Model
• Fits the data• Explains a lot of different data in terms of relatively few
theoretical constructs• Predicts and embraces new data without substantial
modification or post-hoc explanation (“fudging”)
See e.g. Lakatos I, Musgrave A (1970, Eds.) “Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge” Cambridge: Cambridge U.P.Also: Urbach, P (1974 ) Progress and degeneration in the IQ debate. Brit. J. Phil. Sci. 25:235-259.
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“Sociologists are like foootbol team:
zey play ze game, lose, zen shout‘goals don’t count’”
Imre Lakatos, c. 1972.
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Theory Model Data
Model-building Study designData collection
Model-Fitting
Fits?Revise Publishestimates
YESNO
“The Logic of Scientific Discovery”
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Assumptions (Initially)
• Autosomal inheritance• No epistasis• No sex-dependent gene expression• Random mating• Genes of relatives (e.g. mothers) do not affect phenotype
directly• No GxE (see Mather and Jinks for GxE)• No G-E correlation• Simple model for environment• Effects of selection/mutation too small to affect result.
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Basic Model for Effects of a Single Gene on a Quantitative Trait
Mid-homozygote
Homozygous effect
Dominance deviation
Increasing Decreasing
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Derivation of Genotype Frequencies“Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium”
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Genotype Frequencies in Randomly Mating Population
“Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium”frequencies
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What is the mean expected to be?
Note: Effects measured from mid-homozygote (“m”)
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With equal allele frequencies (easier!) put u=v= ½
And the mean is expected to be….
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How does A/a affect the variance?
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Equal allele frequencies u=v= ½
Additive component
Dominance component
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Q: What happens with lots of genes?
A: The effects of the individual genes add up.
IF… the genes are independent (“linkage equilibrium”)
Requires random mating, complete admixture
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So:
Additive Genetic Variance Dominance Genetic Variance
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Additive and Dominance Components:Unequal allele frequencies.
Can show (see e.g. Mather, 1949)
VA VD
Q: What happens when u=v?
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Bottom line:
With unequal allele frequencies can still separate VA and VD but their
definitions change
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VA+VD
VA
VD
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What about the environment???
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Two main sources of environment
• Individual experiences – not shared with siblings:
VE
• “Family” environment – shared with siblings:
VC
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So: the TOTAL variance (Genes + Environment) is:
VP = VA+VD+VE+VC
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“Heritability”“Broad” heritability:
h2b=(VA+VD)/VP
Proportion of total variance explained by genes
“Narrow” heritability: h2
n=VA/VP
Proportion of total variance explained by additive (homozygous) genetic effects (predicts response to selection – Fisher, 1930)
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So far: have looked at effects on total variance…
How do VA and VD affect the correlations between relatives?
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Contribution of genes to correlation between relatives (r):
r = C/VP
Where C=Covariance between relative pairs
“C” depends of kind of relationship (sibling, parent-offspring, MZ twin etc)
But can also be expressed in terms of VA and VD
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Approach1. For a given relationship, work out expected frequencies of each type of pair (AA, aa etc.)2. Write phenotypes of each type of relative3. Compute cross-products of phenotypes of members of type of pair4. Each cross-product by the corresponding frequency5. Add the result of “4” across all pair types
The answer is the covariance you want (if you have done the algebra right!)
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For equal allele frequencies….
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Contribution of one gene to covariance:
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Notice that terms in d2 and h2 are separated – but their coefficients change as a function of relationship
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Can add over all genes to get total contribution to covariance
Cov(MZ) = VA + VD
Cov(DZ) = ½VA + ¼VD
Cov(U)= 0
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Can use the same approach for other relationships
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Relationship Contribution to Covariance VA VD
Total variance 1 1Sibling (DZ twin) ½ ¼ MZ twin 1 1Half-sibling ¼ 0First cousin 1/8 0Parent-offspring ½ 0Avuncular ¼ 0Grand-parent 1/8 0Unrelated 0 0
Contributions of VA and VD to covariances between relatives (ignoring environment)
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Adding effects of Environment
VP = VA + VD + VE + VC
Cov(MZ) = VA + VD + VC
Cov(DZ) = ½VA + ¼VD + VC
Cov(UT) = VC
Etc.
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To get the expected correlations
Just divided expectations by expected total variance
Results are proportional contributions of VA, VD etc. to total variance
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Practice (paper and pencil)
• Set “d” = 1• Pick an “h” (e.g. h=-1.0,-0.5,0,0.5,1.0)• Pick a frequency for the increasing (A) allele
(e.g. u=0.25, 0.5, 0.75)• Work out ,m VA and VD• Tabulate on board
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m = (u-v)d + 2uvh
VA=2uv[d + (v-u)h]2
VD=4u2v2h2
Substitute in algebra:Get your own parameter values
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d<-1 # Homozygous effect ("additive")h<-1 # Heterozygous deviation ("dominance")u<-seq(0.01,0.99,by=.01) # Vector of frequencies of increasing allelev<-1-u # Frequencies of decreasing alleleVA<-2*u*v*(d+(v-u)*h)^2 # Additive genetic varianceVD<-4*u*u*v*v*h*h # Dominance genetic varianceVP<-VA+VD # Total (genetic) variance# Plot resultsplot(u,VP,type="l",main="VA (red) and VD (green) as function of increasing allele frequency",xlab="Frequency of increasing allele",ylab="Variance component")# Add line for VAlines(u,VA,col="red")# Add line for VDlines(u,VD,col="green")
Plotting Effect of Allele frequency on Genetic Variance Components (“R”)
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VA+VD
VA
VD