Direct and Indirect Effects of Maternal, Paternal, and Offspring Genotypes: Trio-GCTA

Espen Moen Eilertsen*, Eshim Shahid Jami, Tom A. McAdams, Laurie J. Hannigan, Alexandra S. Havdahl, Per Magnus, David M. Evans, Eivind Ystrom

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Abstract

Indirect genetic effects from relatives may result in misleading quantifications of heritability, but can also be of interest in their own right. In this paper we propose Trio-GCTA, a model for separating direct and indirect genetic effects when genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism data have been collected from parent-offspring trios. The model is applicable to phenotypes obtained from any of the family members. We discuss appropriate parameter interpretations and apply the method to three exemplar phenotypes: offspring birth weight, maternal relationship satisfaction, and paternal body-mass index, using real data from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)154-161
Number of pages8
JournalBehavior Genetics
Volume51
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2021

Keywords

  • Gene–environment correlation
  • Indirect genetic effects
  • MoBa
  • Trio-GCTA
  • Within-family

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