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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hum Genet. 2011 Aug 20;131(3):353–364. doi: 10.1007/s00439-011-1081-y

Table 2.

13 SNPs showing evidence of a sex-specific effect in disease association using PMASE

Disease SNP Combined p value Female p value Male p value Combined OR Female OR Male OR PMASE p value Q-value Gene
CAD rs7865618 1.57 × 10−8 0.167 1.38 × 10−8 1.290 1.161 1.381 0.0214 0.053
CD rs3792106 4.77 × 10 −12 6.85 × 10 −13 0.0134 1.346 1.477 1.223 0.0019 0.04 ATG16L1
rs6431654 7.75 × 10−14 1.15 × 10−12 0.00208 1.385 1.511 1.255 0.0101 0.18 ATG16L1
RA rs3134926 8.03 × 10−22 1.02 × 10−18 0.000137 1.645 1.773 1.439 0.0296 1
rs4947244 6.70 × 10−8 2.95 × 10−8 0.250 1.292 1.344 1.140 0.0127 1 HLA-G
rs3132666 7.00 × 10−8 1.57 × 10−8 0.0526 0.789 0.745 0.864 0.0225 1
T1D rs2763979 9.90 × 10−61 1.73 × 10−41 1.81 × 10−21 0.497 0.438 0.562 0.0031 1 HSPA1B
rs4148873 2.78 × 10−24 1.30 × 10−7 9.15 × 10−19 1.976 1.664 2.381 0.0088 1 TAP2
rs3131622 6.49 × 10−12 1.92 × 10−10 0.00197 0.745 0.676 0.820 0.0226 1
rs480092 8.41 × 10−15 1.31 × 10−12 0.000212 1.511 1.695 1.348 0.0191 1 VARS
rs3134926 8.19 × 10−10 7.68 × 10−9 0.00817 1.361 1.517 1.224 0.0285 1
rs12660883 1.54 × 10−12 0.000573 2.55 × 10−10 0.626 0.708 0.551 0.0371 1
rs2734973 2.08 × 10−11 2.69 × 10−9 0.0013 1.64 1.88 1.43 0.0470 1

The 13 SNPs with significant sex-difference p values (PMASE p value <0.05) out of the original 280 SNPs are shown below. The allelic odds ratios (OR) are calculated with respect to the risk allele. rs2734973 (italicized) was later excluded after inspection of the intensity plot