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Publication Functionally informed fine-mapping and polygenic localization of complex trait heritability(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-11-16) Weissbrod, Omer; Hormozdiari, Farhad; Benner, Christian; Cui, Ran; Ulirsch, Jacob; Gazal, Steven; Schoech, Armin; van de Geijn, Bryce; Reshef, Yakir; Márquez-Luna, Carla; O’Connor, Luke; Pirinen, Matti; Finucane, Hilary; Price, AlkesFine-mapping aims to identify causal variants impacting complex traits. We propose PolyFun, a computationally scalable framework to improve fine-mapping accuracy by leveraging functional annotations across the entire genome-not just genome-wide-significant loci-to specify prior probabilities for fine-mapping methods such as SuSiE or FINEMAP. In simulations, PolyFun + SuSiE and PolyFun + FINEMAP were well calibrated and identified >20% more variants with a posterior causal probability >0.95 than identified in their nonfunctionally informed counterparts. In analyses of 49 UK Biobank traits (average n = 318,000), PolyFun + SuSiE identified 3,025 fine-mapped variant-trait pairs with posterior causal probability >0.95, a >32% improvement versus SuSiE. We used posterior mean per-SNP heritabilities from PolyFun + SuSiE to perform polygenic localization, constructing minimal sets of common SNPs causally explaining 50% of common SNP heritability; these sets ranged in size from 28 (hair color) to 3,400 (height) to 2 million (number of children). In conclusion, PolyFun prioritizes variants for functional follow-up and provides insights into complex trait architectures.