An atlas of genetic scores to predict multi-omic traits
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The use of omic modalities to dissect the molecular underpinnings of common diseases and traits is becoming increasingly common. But multi-omic traits can be genetically predicted, which enables highly cost-effective and powerful analyses for studies that do not have multi-omics1. Here we examine a large cohort (the INTERVAL study2; n = 50,000 participants) with extensive multi-omic data for plasma proteomics (SomaScan, n = 3,175; Olink, n = 4,822), plasma metabolomics (Metabolon HD4, n = 8,153), serum metabolomics (Nightingale, n = 37,359) and whole-blood Illumina RNA sequencing (n = 4,136), and use machine learning to train genetic scores for 17,227 molecular traits, including 10,521 that reach Bonferroni-adjusted significance. We evaluate the performance of genetic scores through external validation across cohorts of individuals of European, Asian and African American ancestries. In addition, we show the utility of these multi-omic genetic scores by quantifying the genetic control of biological pathways and by generating a synthetic multi-omic dataset of the UK Biobank3 to identify disease associations using a phenome-wide scan. We highlight a series of biological insights with regard to genetic mechanisms in metabolism and canonical pathway associations with disease; for example, JAK-STAT signalling and coronary atherosclerosis. Finally, we develop a portal ( https://www.omicspred.org/ ) to facilitate public access to all genetic scores and validation results, as well as to serve as a platform for future extensions and enhancements of multi-omic genetic scores.
Date Issued
2023-04-06
Date Acceptance
2023-02-15
Citation
Nature, 2023, 616 (7955), pp.123-131
ISSN
0028-0836
Publisher
Nature Research
Start Page
123
End Page
131
Journal / Book Title
Nature
Volume
616
Issue
7955
Copyright Statement
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36991119
PII: 10.1038/s41586-023-05844-9
Subjects
Asian
Black or African American
Cohort Studies
Coronary Artery Disease
Databases, Factual
Datasets as Topic
European People
Humans
Internet
Machine Learning
Metabolome
Metabolomics
Multiomics
Phenotype
Plasma
Proteome
Proteomics
Reproducibility of Results
United Kingdom
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
England
Date Publish Online
2023-03-29