Skip to content

Trait

Definition
AI-generated

A trait is the characteristic under study (e.g. height, LDL cholesterol, disease liability).

Topics
Epidemiology
Related
Genetic Correlation Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) Heritability

Why it matters in GWAS

The trait definition determines inclusion, covariates, model (linear vs logistic), and whether results are reported on observed or liability scales for binary outcomes.

Example usage

"We analyzed the correlated traits BMI and waist-hip ratio in a multi-trait GWAS."

Genetic Correlation Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) Heritability Multi-Trait GWAS Phenotype Pleiotropy
Related-term network

Click any node to open that term page.

Node order. The current term is first. Next come every page linked from Related terms, in the same top-to-bottom order as that list. Then new terms appear in two-hop layers: for each of those direct neighbors (in that same order), their related terms are appended if not already listed. A third pass does the same for two-hop nodes. The walk stops when a fixed maximum number of nodes is reached.

References

  • Visscher PM, et al. (2017). 10 Years of GWAS Discovery.
← Training Epoch Trajectory Inference →

Last updated (UTC · Git history)