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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Imaging Behav. 2012 Dec;6(4):621–633. doi: 10.1007/s11682-012-9184-1

Table 7.

Comparison of GWAS results of our phenotype of interest when a) not adjusting for principal components, b) adjusting for the first three principal components and c) adjusting for the first three principal components and APOE status

Top 20 SNPs for GWAS w/o PCs
Top 20 SNPs for GWAS with PC1, PC2 & PC3
Top 20 SNPs for GWAS with PC1, PC2, PC3 and APOE
CHR SNP p-value CHR SNP p-value CHR SNP p-value
14 rs3748348 1.92×10−7 14 rs3748348 2.12e-07 14 rs3748348 2.13×10−7
2 rs1609361 1.96×10−6 2 rs1609361 2.099e-06 2 rs1609361 2.15×10−6
10 rs7897741 5.03×10−6 10 rs7897741 5.907e-06 10 rs7897741 6.04×10−6
8 rs13251704 9.10×10−6 2 rs16987794 1.103e-05 2 rs16987794 1.12×10−5
2 rs2698011 1.16×10−5 8 rs13251704 1.163e-05 8 rs13251704 1.18×10−5
2 rs2698029 1.26×10−5 2 rs2698011 1.294e-05 2 rs2698011 1.31×10−5
2 rs2715077 1.26×10−5 2 rs2715077 1.366e-05 12 rs7306879 1.39×10−5
2 rs16987794 1.38×10−5 12 rs7306879 1.422e-05 2 rs2715077 1.40×10−5
12 rs7306879 2.10×10−5 2 rs2698029 1.438e-05 2 rs2698029 1.48×10−5
4 rs4865353 2.13×10−5 4 rs4865353 2.23e-05 4 rs4865353 2.28×10−5
8 rs13258868 2.75×10−5 14 rs2365682 2.585e-05 14 rs2365682 2.63×10−5
14 rs2365682 2.77×10−5 12 rs11055126 3.007e-05 12 rs11055126 3.06×10−5
2 rs2698024 3.39×10−5 8 rs13258868 3.1e-05 8 rs13258868 3.15×10−5
12 rs11055126 3.50×10−5 5 rs13183341 3.412e-05 5 rs13183341 3.48×10−5
3 rs9851461 3.65×10−5 6 rs9344230 3.519e-05 6 rs9344230 3.49×10−5
15 rs4456480 3.66×10−5 12 rs12316661 3.754e-05 6 rs1737038 3.79×10−5
12 rs12316661 3.94×10−5 6 rs1737038 3.756e-05 12 rs12316661 3.81×10−5
3 rs6809436 3.98×10−5 2 rs2698024 3.81e-05 2 rs2698024 3.89×10−5
6 rs1737038 4.02×10−5 3 rs9851461 4.16e-05 15 rs4456480 4.05×10−5
6 rs9344230 4.03×10−5 15 rs4456480 4.186e-05 3 rs9851461 4.08×10−5

PC Principal component