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ArticleNature genetics2026

Pleiotropic shared heritability quantifies the shared genetic variance of common diseases.

Yujie Zhao, Benjamin Strober, Kangcheng Hou, Gaspard Kerner, John Danesh, Steven Gazal, Wei Cheng, Michael Inouye, Alkes L Price, Xilin Jiang

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Article in Nature genetics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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10 authors.

Yujie ZhaoInstitute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. yjzhao22@m.fudan.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-1472-3959
Benjamin StroberComputational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2969-2808
Kangcheng HouDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Gaspard KernerDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0146-9428
John DaneshBritish Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Steven GazalDepartment of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4510-5730
Wei ChengInstitute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1118-1743
Michael InouyeBritish Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9413-6520
Alkes L PriceDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. aprice@hsph.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2971-7975
Xilin JiangDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. xj262@medschl.cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6773-9182

Funding

Statistical methods for studies of rare variantsR01MH101244 · NIMH · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI Benjamin Michael Neale, ALKES L PRICE · 2013 to 2026
$9.4M
Statistical methods to localize disease heritability and identify biological mechanismsR37MH107649 · NIMH · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI Benjamin Michael Neale · 2019 to 2026
$7.0M
Methods for Genome-wide Association Studies in Admixed PopulationsR01HG006399 · NHGRI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI PRICE, ALKES L · 2011 to 2024
$6.3M
Predicting the impact of genetic variants, genes and pathways on human DiseaseU01HG012009 · NHGRI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI ALKES L PRICE, Soumya Raychaudhuri · 2021 to 2026
$4.2M
British Heart Foundation (BHF) RG/18/13/33946British Heart Foundation (BHF) RG/F/23/110103NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG006399NHGRI NIH HHS U01 HG012009NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH101244NIMH NIH HHS R37 MH107649Wellcome Trust (Wellcome) 227566/Z/23/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The overall contribution of pleiotropy to disease architectures is unknown, as most studies estimate genetic correlations with each auxiliary disease in turn. Here we propose a method-pleiotropic shared heritability with bias correction (PHBC)-to estimate the liability-scale genetic variance of a target disease that is shared with a specific set of auxiliary diseases (

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DiseaseGenetic PleiotropyGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenetic VariationGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansModels, GeneticMonte Carlo MethodPhenotypePolymorphism, Single NucleotideUK Biobank

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