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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 26.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Genet. 2012 Sep 2;44(10):1084–1089. doi: 10.1038/ng.2394

Table 1.

Estimated degree of tissue sharing of cis-effects (1% FDR) using (A) a threshold-based approach and (B) a matched co-twin design comparing the p-value distributions across tissueswhereπ1 represents the proportion of true positives

Reference tissue Secondary tissue A B

N (%) Twin 1 π1 Twin 2 π1

Adipose LCL 1221 (34.6) 0.64 0.56
Skin 1207 (34.3) 0.79 0.77
LCL and Skin 767(21.8) - -
LCL or Skin 1661 (47.1) - -

LCL Adipose 1118 (24.2) 0.65 0.63
Skin 978 (21.1) 0.65 0.61
Adipose and Skin 728 (15.7) - -
Adipose or Skin 1368 (29.6) - -

Skin Adipose 1265 (45.2) 0.77 0.83
LCL 1104 (39.5) 0.64 0.64
Adipose and LCL 790(28.3) - -
Adipose or LCL 1579 (56.5) - -