Table 1. Examples of GWAS application in bacterial pathogens.

Diseases	Species	Sample size	phenotype	Sig. viriants	Reference
DR: Drug resistance; IPD: Invasive pneumococcal disease.
Tuberculosis	M. tuberculosis	161	DR	ponA1	Farhat et al. 2013
		1526	DR	13 loci	Farhat et al. 2019
		161	DR	10 SNPs	Zhang et al. 2013
		1000	DR	rpoA, B, C; eis	Casali et al. 2014
		123	DR	58 SNPs	Chen and Shapiro 2015
		3651	DR	23 SNPs	Walker et al. 2015
		284	DR	ald	Desjardins et al. 2016
		6465	DR	43 SNPs	Coll et al. 2018
		710	DR	2 SNPs	Hicks et al. 2019
		177	DR	25 SNPs	Kavvas et al. 2020
Pneumonia	S. pneumoniae	3701	DR	51 SNPs	Chewapreecha et al. 2014
		1680	DR	4,317 SNPs	Mobegi et al. 2017
	K. pneumoniae	328	Virulence & DR	wzi	Holt et al. 2015
Pyomyositis	S. aureus	90	Virulence	121 SNPs	Laabei et al. 2014
		75	DR	1 SNPs	Alam et al. 2014
		518	Morbidity	PVL encoding genes	Young et al. 2019
Gastroenteritis	C. jejuni	192	Host adaptation	7 genes	Sheppard et al. 2013
		102	Biofilm formation	46 genes	Pascoe et al. 2015
		600	Survival	20 genes	Yahara et al. 2017
		166	Diagnostic Markers	25 genes	Buchanan et al. 2017
Meningitis	Pneumococcus	4572	DR & IPD	pbp1bA641C	Li et al. 2019a