| DR | Diabetic retinopathy |
| BDR | Background diabetic retinopathy |
| NPDR | Non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy |
| PDR | Proliferative diabetic retinopathy |
| FRPs | Frailty-related phenotypes |
| FI | Frailty index |
| ALM | Appendicular lean mass |
| HGS | Hand grip strength |
| UWP | Usual walking pace |
| GWAS | Genome-wide association study |
| ICD-10 | International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision |
| BIA | Bioelectrical impedance analysis |
| LD | Linkage disequilibrium |
| SNV | Single-nucleotide variant |
| SNP | Single-nucleotide polymorphism |
| LDSC | Linkage Disequilibrium Score Regression |
| HDL | High-Definition Likelihood |
| LAVA | Local Analysis of [co]Variant Association |
| MR | Mendelian randomization |
| IV | Instrumental variable |
| IVW | Inverse variance weighted |
| MR-PRESSO | Mendelian Randomization Pleiotropy RESidual Sum and Outlier |
| LCV | Latent causal variable |
| GCP | Genetic causality proportion |
| BH | Benjamini–Hochberg |
| FDR | False discovery rate |
| S-LDSC | Stratified Linkage Disequilibrium Score Regression |
| ENCODE | Encyclopedia of DNA Elements |
| CPASSOC | Cross-Phenotype Association Test |
| PLACO | Pleiotropic Analysis under Composite Null Hypothesis |
| FUMA | Functional Mapping and Annotation |
| CADD | Combined Annotation Dependent Depletion |
| PP | Posterior probability |
| PCGA | Phenotype-Cell-Gene Association |
| GTEx | Genotype-Tissue Expression |
| MAGMA | Multi-marker Analysis of GenoMic Annotation |
| TWAS | Transcriptome-wide association study |
| JTI | Joint-tissue imputation |
| MHC | Major Histocompatibility Complex |
| CNS | Central nervous system |
| NK | Natural killer |
| NF-κB | Nuclear factor kappa B |
| VEGFA | Vascular endothelial growth factor A |
| NHANES | National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey |
| CHARGE | Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in |