Multi-Trait Analysis of GWAS and Biological Insights Into Cognition: A Response to Hill (2018)

Max Lam; Joey W Trampush; Jin Yu; Emma Knowles; Srdjan Djurovic; Ingrid Melle; Kjetil Sundet; Andrea Christoforou; Ivar Reinvang; Pamela DeRosse; Astri J Lundervold; Vidar M Steen; Thomas Espeseth; Katri Räikkönen; Elisabeth Widen; Aarno Palotie; Johan G Eriksson; Ina Giegling; Bettina Konte; Panos Roussos; Stella Giakoumaki; Katherine E Burdick; Antony Payton; William Ollier; Ornit Chiba-Falek; Deborah K Attix; Anna C Need; Elizabeth T Cirulli; Aristotle N Voineskos; Nikos C Stefanis; Dimitrios Avramopoulos; Alex Hatzimanolis; Dan E Arking; Nikolaos Smyrnis; Robert M Bilder; Nelson A Freimer; Tyrone D Cannon; Edythe London; Russell A Poldrack; Fred W Sabb; Eliza Congdon; Emily Drabant Conley; Matthew A Scult; Dwight Dickinson; Richard E Straub; Gary Donohoe; Derek Morris; Aiden Corvin; Michael Gill; Ahmad R Hariri; Daniel R Weinberger; Neil Pendleton; Panos Bitsios; Dan Rujescu; Jari Lahti; Stephanie Le Hellard; Matthew C Keller; Ole A Andreassen; David C Glahn; Anil K Malhotra; Todd Lencz

doi:10.1017/thg.2018.46

Multi-Trait Analysis of GWAS and Biological Insights Into Cognition: A Response to Hill (2018)

Max Lam
, Joey W Trampush
, Jin Yu
, Emma Knowles
, Srdjan Djurovic
, Ingrid Melle
, Kjetil Sundet
, Andrea Christoforou
, Ivar Reinvang
, Pamela DeRosse
, Astri J Lundervold
, Vidar M Steen
, Thomas Espeseth
, Katri Räikkönen
, Elisabeth Widen
, Aarno Palotie
, Johan G Eriksson
, Ina Giegling
, Bettina Konte
, Panos Roussos

Stella Giakoumaki, Katherine E Burdick, Antony Payton, William Ollier, Ornit Chiba-Falek, Deborah K Attix, Anna C Need, Elizabeth T Cirulli, Aristotle N Voineskos, Nikos C Stefanis, Dimitrios Avramopoulos, Alex Hatzimanolis, Dan E Arking, Nikolaos Smyrnis, Robert M Bilder, Nelson A Freimer, Tyrone D Cannon, Edythe London, Russell A Poldrack, Fred W Sabb, Eliza Congdon, Emily Drabant Conley, Matthew A Scult, Dwight Dickinson, Richard E Straub, Gary Donohoe, Derek Morris, Aiden Corvin, Michael Gill, Ahmad R Hariri, Daniel R Weinberger, Neil Pendleton, Panos Bitsios, Dan Rujescu, Jari Lahti, Stephanie Le Hellard, Matthew C Keller, Ole A Andreassen, David C Glahn, Anil K Malhotra, Todd Lencz

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Hill (Twin Research and Human Genetics, Vol. 21, 2018, 84-88) presented a critique of our recently published paper in Cell Reports entitled 'Large-Scale Cognitive GWAS Meta-Analysis Reveals Tissue-Specific Neural Expression and Potential Nootropic Drug Targets' (Lam et al., Cell Reports, Vol. 21, 2017, 2597-2613). Specifically, Hill offered several interrelated comments suggesting potential problems with our use of a new analytic method called Multi-Trait Analysis of GWAS (MTAG) (Turley et al., Nature Genetics, Vol. 50, 2018, 229-237). In this brief article, we respond to each of these concerns. Using empirical data, we conclude that our MTAG results do not suffer from 'inflation in the FDR [false discovery rate]', as suggested by Hill (Twin Research and Human Genetics, Vol. 21, 2018, 84-88), and are not 'more relevant to the genetic contributions to education than they are to the genetic contributions to intelligence'.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-4
Number of pages	4
Journal	Twin Research and Human Genetics
Early online date	13 Jul 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/thg.2018.46
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Lam, M., Trampush, J. W., Yu, J., Knowles, E., Djurovic, S., Melle, I., Sundet, K., Christoforou, A., Reinvang, I., DeRosse, P., Lundervold, A. J., Steen, V. M., Espeseth, T., Räikkönen, K., Widen, E., Palotie, A., Eriksson, J. G., Giegling, I., Konte, B., ... Lencz, T. (2018). Multi-Trait Analysis of GWAS and Biological Insights Into Cognition: A Response to Hill (2018). Twin Research and Human Genetics, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1017/thg.2018.46

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