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. 2014 Feb 12;4(2):298–311. doi: 10.1002/brb3.205

Table 3.

Meta-analysis of percentage of variance explained in depression phenotype in NHS by the genome-wide agnostic polygenic scores in the leave-one-substudy-out analysis (N = 6989).

Cumulative P-value thresholds for selecting SNPs
Nonoverlapping P-value thresholds for selecting SNPs
Ptraining1 threshold Percentage of variance explained P-value Ptraining1 threshold Percentage of variance explained P-value
p<0.00001 0.1 0.355 0–0.00001 0.1 0.355
p<0.0001 0 0.528 0.00001–0.0001 0 0.944
p<0.001 0.2 0.159 0.0001–0.001 0.2 0.118
p<0.01 0.1 0.524 0.001–0.01 0.1 0.977
p<0.1 0.1 0.043 0.01–0.1 0.1 0.013
p<0.2 0.1 0.002 0.1–0.2 0.1 0.003
p<0.3 0.2 0.003 0.2–0.3 0.1 0.832
p<0.4 0.1 0.002 0.3–0.4 0.1 0.269
p<0.5 0.1 0.004 0.4–0.5 0 0.996

NHS, Nurses' Health Study; SNP, single-nucleotide polymorphism.

1

Training set: remaining three NHS substudies except the testing sample.