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ldsc

Description

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ldsc is a command line tool for estimating heritability and genetic correlation from GWAS summary statistics. ldsc also computes LD Scores.

Environment Modules

Run module spider ldsc to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

Environment Variables

  • HPC_LDSC_DIR - installation directory
  • HPC_LDSC_BIN - executable directory

Citation

If you publish research that uses ldsc you have to cite it as follows:

Bulik-Sullivan, B. K., Loh, P.-R., Finucane, H. K., Ripke, S., Yang, J., Patterson, N., Daly, M. J., Price, A. L., & Neale, B. M., and the Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. (2015). LD Score regression distinguishes confounding from polygenicity in genome-wide association studies. Nature Genetics, 47(3), 291–295. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3211

Categories

genomics, biology