| 25(OH)D | 25-hydroxyvitamin D |
| AUC | Area under the curve |
| AGO4 | Argonaute Component 4 |
| BMI | Body mass index |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| CLIA | Chemiluminescent immunoassay |
| C + T | Clumping and thresholding |
| GC | Group-specific component (vitamin D-binding protein) |
| GWAS | Genome-wide association study |
| DHCR7 | 7-dehydrocholesterol reductase |
| IBS | Identity-by-state |
| IRB | Institutional Review Board |
| LD | Linkage disequilibrium |
| MAF | Minor allele frequency |
| MDS | Multidimensional scaling |
| OR | Odds ratio |
| PC | Principal component |
| PGS | Polygenic score |
| QC | Quality control |
| QBB | Qatar Biobank |
| QF | Qatar Foundation |
| QGP | Qatar Genome Program |
| QPHI | Qatar Precision Health Institute |
| Q–Q | Quantile–quantile |
| R2 | Coefficient of determination |
| POTEB3 | POTE Ankyrin Domain B3 |
| RDH13 | Retinol dehydrogenase 13 |
| RXR | Retinoid X receptor |
| SAIGE | Scalable and Accurate Implementation of GEneralized mixed model |
| SE | Standard error |
| SNP | Single nucleotide polymorphism |
| SLC | Solute carrier |
| TMEM | Transmembrane protein |
| VDR | Vitamin D receptor |
| VEP | Variant Effect Predictor |
| WGS | Whole-genome sequencing |