| Title: | Deep learning-based phenotype imputation on population-scale biobank data increases genetic discoveries |
| Journal: | Nature Genetics |
| Published: | 20 Nov 2023 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37985819/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-023-01558-w |
| URL: | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-023-01558-w.pdf |
Publication 8302
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Abstract
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.</p>
13 Authors
- Ulzee An
- Ali Pazokitoroudi
- Marcus Alvarez
- Lianyun Huang
- Silviu Bacanu
- Andrew J. Schork
- Kenneth Kendler
- Päivi Pajukanta
- Jonathan Flint
- Noah Zaitlen
- Na Cai
- Andy Dahl
- Sriram Sankararaman
Enabling scientific discoveries that improve human health