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. 2024 Apr 2;15:2632. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-46277-w

Table 2.

Burden heritability regression for left-handedness shows the proportion of trait disposition due to rare, exonic variants considered over the whole genome

All genes TUBB4B excluded
Functional group Minor allele frequency (MAF) Heritability SE Genes Heritability SE Genes
Strict MAF < 1 × 10−5 0.14% 0.13% 16891 0.16% 0.13% 16890
Strict 1 × 10−5 ≤ MAF < 1 × 10−3 0.32% 0.14% 16584 0.29% 0.14% 16583
Strict 1 × 10−3 ≤ MAF ≤ 1 × 10−2 −0.04% 0.10% 6476 −0.04% 0.10% 6476
Strict Aggregate 0.41% 0.24% NA 0.41% 0.24%
Broad minus strict MAF < 1 × 10−5 0.08% 0.08% 16952 0.09% 0.08% 16951
Broad minus strict 1 × 10−5 ≤ MAF < 1 × 10−3 0.18% 0.10% 16508 0.18% 0.10% 16508
Broad minus strict 1 × 10−3 ≤ MAF ≤ 1 × 10−2 0.24% 0.12% 5787 0.24% 0.12% 5787
Broad minus strict Aggregate 0.50% 0.17% NA 0.51% 0.17%
All Aggregate 0.91% 0.32% NA 0.92% 0.32%

Liability-scale heritability estimates are presented separately by variant functional groups and frequency bins, as well as aggregated. For this specific analysis (unlike the gene-based exome-wide association scan), the strict variants were removed from the broad set, in order to distinguish the contributions to heritability from disruptive versus more subtle variants. Results are shown before and after excluding TUBB4B. SE: standard error of the heritability estimate. “Genes” refers to the number of genes included in the analysis for a given variant frequency bin.