LD Hub

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LD Hub is a centralized database of summary-level GWAS results for 173 diseases/traits from different publicly available resources/consortia and a web interface that automates the LD score regression analysis pipeline. LD score regression is a reliable and efficient method of using genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary-level results data to estimate the SNP heritability of complex traits and diseases, partition this heritability into functional categories, and estimate the genetic correlation between different phenotypes.

LD Hub was developed collaboratively by Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol. The site is hosted by the Broad Institute. Major developers include Jie Zheng, Tom Gaunt, David Evans and Benjamin Neale.

For more information on LD score regression, please cite the following publications:

If you use LD Hub, please cite

Zheng, et al. LD Hub: a centralized database and web interface to perform LD score regression that maximizes the potential of summary level GWAS data for SNP heritability and genetic correlation analysis. Bioinformatics (2016) doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw613

If you use the software or the LD Score regression intercept, please cite

Bulik-Sullivan, et al. LD Score Regression Distinguishes Confounding from Polygenicity in Genome-Wide Association Studies. Nature Genetics, 2015.

For genetic correlation, please also cite

Bulik-Sullivan, et al. An atlas of genetic correlations across human diseases and traits, Nature Genetics, 2015.

We are grateful to the following GWAS studies, databases and consortia who have kindly made their summary data available: