BMI	Body mass index
CI	Confidence interval
COL11A2	Collagen type XI alpha 2 chain
COL27A1	Collagen type XXVII alpha 1 chain
COMT	Catechol-O-methyltransferase
dbGaP	Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes
DNA	Deoxyribonucleic acid
DUX4	Double homeobox 4
DUXA	Double homeobox A
eQTL	Expression Quantitative Trait Locus
GDF5	Growth differentiation factor 5
GeCKO	Genetic Components of Knee Osteoarthritis
GTEx	Genotype-Tissue Expression
GWAS	Genome-wide association study
HWE	Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium
IL-1	Interleukin-1
IL-6	Interleukin-6
IL-8	Interleukin-8
IL-36	Interleukin-36
IL-36γ	Interleukin-36 gamma
IL-36R	Interleukin-36 receptor
IL36B	Interleukin 36 beta
IQR	Interquartile range
LD	Linkage disequilibrium
LMCD1-AS1	LMCD1 antisense RNA 1
lncRNA	Long non-coding RNA
LOC105378178	Uncharacterised non-coding RNA locus
LOC124907827	Uncharacterised non-coding RNA locus
MAF	Minor allele frequency
Minimac4	Minimac4 imputation software
mtDNA	Mitochondrial DNA
OA	Osteoarthritis
OAI	Osteoarthritis Initiative
OR	Odds ratio
PBL	Peripheral blood leukocytes
PCA	Principal component analysis
PC	Principal component
PCR	Polymerase chain reaction
QC	Quality control
QQ	Quantile–quantile
RAI1	Retinoic acid induced 1
ROS	Reactive oxygen species
r2	Squared correlation coefficient
RNA	Ribonucleic acid
Rsq	Imputation quality metric
SBE	Single base extension
SCN9A	Sodium voltage-gated channel alpha subunit 9
SD	Standard deviation
SNP	Single nucleotide polymorphism
SPSS	Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
sQTL	Splicing quantitative trait locus
TACR1	Tachykinin receptor 1
TRPV1	Transient receptor potential vanilloid 1
VCF	Variant call format
WOMAC	Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index