Figure 2. Impact of SNP types on the likelihood of disease association.

For each of the nine SNP types, the likelihood of disease associations was estimated as the percentage of disease-associated SNPs among all SNPs measured in the HapMap 3 project. Similar likelihoods were observed among nsSNPs, sSNPs, and SNPs in the 5′-UTR. The number of disease-associated SNPs and SNPs measured in the HapMap 3 project were specified in the parenthesis.