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. 2014 Aug 18;9(8):e105062. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105062

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© 2014 Scannell Bryan et al

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QQ plots for the 47 SNVs previously reported as associated with body mass index that we interrogated (A) SNVs that have a directionally consistent effect with previous literature (n = 35) show an inflation in the p-values calculated for this study, whereas the QQ plot of our p-values for SNVs that are directionally inconsistent (B) (n = 13) are consistent with the null hypothesis.