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. 2025 Sep 28;26(19):9481. doi: 10.3390/ijms26199481
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