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  • Evolutionary Biology
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  • Genotype-phenotype relationships are central to modern biology.
  • Understanding how phenotypic traits are coded within phenotype space is limited.
  • Phenotype space can be mathematically partitioned into genetic (P^G) and non-genetic (P^NG) subspaces.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and apply a dimension decomposition method to separate genetic and non-genetic influences on phenotypic traits.
  • To investigate the dimensional structure of genetic and non-genetic subspaces.
  • To elucidate the genetic architecture of complex traits in yeast and human brain.

Main Methods:

  • Developed and applied uncorrelation-based high-dimensional dependence (UBHDD) for dimension decomposition.
  • Applied UBHDD to yeast phenotype data (~400 traits, ~1000 individuals).
  • Applied UBHDD to UK Biobank human brain phenotype data (~700 traits, ~26,000 individuals).

Main Results:

  • UBHDD successfully separated genetic (P^G) and non-genetic (P^NG) subspaces in both yeast and human data.
  • Identified a limited number of recurrent latent dimensions in P^G for coding diverse traits.
  • Demonstrated trait-specific, constantly increasing dimensions in P^NG.
  • Elucidated genetic vs. non-genetic origins of human brain asymmetry and revealed novel genetic correlations.

Conclusions:

  • Phenotypic traits are coded by a limited set of common genetic dimensions and unlimited trait-specific non-genetic dimensions.
  • UBHDD is an effective method for dissecting the genetic and non-genetic architecture of complex traits.
  • This finding provides a fundamental rule for the emerging field of phenomics.