bio-causal-genomics-heritability-partitioning

bio-causal-genomics-heritability-partitioning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GPTomics/bioSkills. It costs 186 tokens per session (9,703 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for estimating how much variation in a trait is associated with genetic differences, then dividing that estimate among genomic regions, functional annotations, cell types, or populations. GWAS summary statistics are results from studies linking genetic variants with traits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to estimate SNP heritability, partition heritability by annotation or cell type, measure local heritability, and compare genetic effects across populations.
Why use it?
It helps show whether genetic influence is concentrated in particular biological features or genomic areas instead of treating all variants alike.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is # bins; download BaselineLD.zip (96 annotations) from dougspeed.com/resources and extract to ./BaselineLD/BaselineLD{1..96} (the run uses the first 86)..

Good fit Use it to estimate SNP heritability, partition heritability by annotation or cell type, measure local heritability, and compare genetic effects across populations.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GPTomics/bioSkills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gptomics/bioskills/heritability-partitioning

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 186 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,703 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00186 $0.09703
Opus 5 $0.00093 $0.04852
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.01941
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00970

Measured 9d ago against content hash fd5b09e3608e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bio-causal-genomics-heritability-partitioning scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (examples/ldak_sumher.sh, examples/ldsc_partitioned_h2.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dougspeed/LDAK/main/ldak6.3.linux
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

causal-genomics/heritability-partitioning/SKILL.md · 452 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 452 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Compatibility

Reference examples tested with: LDSC v1.0.1+ (Python 3 fork; prefer abdenlab/ldsc-python3 v2.0.0 which retains the working --h2 / --rg / --h2-cts CLI -- belowlab/ldsc v3.0.1 explicitly broke that CLI per its README and is best run via Docker jtb114/ldsc:latest), LDAK 6.0+, BOLT-LMM 2.4.1+, GCTA 1.94+, HESS 0.5.4+, HDL 1.4.0+ (R; GitHub zhenin/HDL), Popcorn 1.0+ (Python; brielin/Popcorn), baselineLD_v2.2 annotations (alkesgroup.broadinstitute.org/LDSCORE).

Before using code patterns, verify installed versions match. If versions differ:

  • Python: pip show <package> then python -c 'import <module>; help(<module>)'
  • R: packageVersion('<pkg>') then ?function_name
  • CLI: <tool> --version then <tool> --help

LDSC's official repository (bulik/ldsc) is Python 2.7 only and unmaintained since 2019; use the Python 3 community forks. If code throws ImportError, AttributeError, or a "category not found" error in the LD score file, introspect the installed binary and the actual LD-score column headers rather than retrying.

Heritability Partitioning

"Estimate SNP heritability and partition it across functional categories, cell types, and loci" -> Decompose h2_SNP from GWAS summary statistics (or individual-level genotypes) into contributions from baseline annotations (coding, conserved, regulatory), tissue-specific chromatin marks, and per-locus components, then reconcile model-dependent enrichment estimates across LDSC and LDAK. Tool choice is a decision about the regime (summary-stat vs individual-level; one-trait vs two-trait genetic correlation; total vs partitioned vs local) and the model assumption about how per-SNP heritability scales with LD, MAF, and functional annotation (GCTA model vs LDAK-Thin vs baseline-LD).

  • CLI (h2 from sumstats, EUR): ldsc.py --h2 trait.sumstats.gz --ref-ld-chr eur_w_ld_chr/ --w-ld-chr eur_w_ld_chr/ --out h2
  • CLI (functional partitioning): ldsc.py --h2 trait.sumstats.gz --ref-ld-chr baselineLD.,<annot>. --frqfile-chr 1000G.EUR.QC. --w-ld-chr weights. --overlap-annot --print-coefficients --out part
  • CLI (cell-type prioritization, Finucane 2018): ldsc.py --h2-cts trait.sumstats.gz --ref-ld-chr-cts <cts_file>.ldcts --w-ld-chr weights. --out cts
  • CLI (cross-trait rg): ldsc.py --rg t1.sumstats.gz,t2.sumstats.gz --ref-ld-chr eur_w_ld_chr/ --w-ld-chr eur_w_ld_chr/ --out rg
  • CLI (LDAK alternative): ldak --sum-hers <out> --summary trait.txt --tagfile ldak.thin.<build>.tagging --check-sums NO
  • R (HDL): HDL::HDL.rg(gwas1.df, gwas2.df, LD.path = 'UKB_array_SVD_eigen90_extraction')
  • CLI (local h2): HESS step1 hess.py --local-hsqg trait.sumstats.gz --chrom <chr> --bfile <ref> --partition <part>.bed --out hess_<chr>

Read the full file on GitHub · 452 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 452 lines · 186 tokens per session scan A fd5b09e3608e

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bio-causal-genomics-heritability-partitioning is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPTomics/bioSkills (1,199 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 186 tokens to every session and 9,703 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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