Scalable summary-statistics-based heritability estimation method with individual genotype level accuracy

Table 3.

Runtime estimates of the six methods

Step Sample BOLT-REML GCTA-GREML RHE SUM-RHE LDSC SumHer
Reference statistic estimation 281k 14,286.4 3120.8 697.3
GWAS summary 10k 7.0 7.0 7.0
Heritability estimation 10k 589.6 847.3 590.6 1.6 4.0 2.9
Reference statistic estimation 241k 14,686.0 2699.9 1180.7
GWAS summary 50k 17.9 17.9 17.9
Heritability estimation 50k 3032.6 1.3 4.0 1.6
  • We ran each method on 10 replicates to measure wall clock time. For methods or tools that allow multithreading (BOLT/GCTA-GREML, SumHer, PLINK 2.0), we used six threads, run on the UCLA Hoffman2 computing nodes. SUM-RHE trace summaries were estimated by running the original RHE-mc codes (which does not support multithreading). PLINK 2.0 was used for calculating the GWAS summary statistics. All measurements are in seconds.

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  1. Genome Res. 34: 1286-1293

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