Table 1. Genetic scores based on different reference studies.

Reference studies(Authors)	Data Table#	# SNPs$	Reference effect sizes&		ρeff *	Variance explained (%)
			Source	Sample size		Unweighted	Weighted
Nature 467:832-8 [11]	Suppl Table 1	180	Stage 1	133653	0.455	5.45	7.79
Lango Allelen et al.			Stage 2	50074	0.497	5.45	7.95
			Stage 1+2	183727	0.472	5.45	7.94
			Females	110489	0.461	5.45	7.87
			Males	73238	0.486	5.45	7.80
Nat Genet 40:609-15 [6]	Table 1 and 2	57	Iceland	25174	0.523	3.35	3.58
Gudbjartsson et al.			Holland	2876	0.550	3.35	3.72
			US Cau	1770	0.448	2.62	2.69
			US Afr	1148	0.199	0.81	1.01
Nat Genet 40:584-91 [7]	Table 1	29	Meta	15821	0.492	3.50	3.48
Lettre et al.			Follow-up	19990	0.577	1.43	3.38
			Combined	35811	0.539	3.50	3.85
			USHT*	2189	0.639	3.19	4.62
Nat Genet 40: 575-83 [8]	Table 1	20	Female	na	0.657	3.18	3.20
Weedon et al.			Male	na	0.732	3.18	3.77
Eur J Hum Genet 17:1070-5	Suppl Table 1	54	Add, single	5748	0.608	4.75	4.83
Aulchenko et al.			Genotype	5748	-	4.07	4.28

^#The table number in the reference study, from where the list of height-associated SNPs and their effect size estimates were extracted to build the genetic scores.

^$The number of height-associated SNPs reported by the reference study.

^&Individual reference studies report multiple effect sizes estimated from multiple sources with different sample sizes. Based on these estimates, different genetic scores can be constructed.

*The Pearson correlation between the effect sizes extracted from the original report and estimated from our samples.