Table 2. Results from individual studies used for SNP selection in the present study.

Gene	SNP and position	Study	Phenotype
SCN5A	rs11720524 [C/G] intron 1	Albert et al; 2010 [18]	Associated with cases of sudden and/or arrhytmic cardiac death in individuals of European ancestry
RYR2	rs790896 [A/G] 3′-UTR	Ran et al; 2010 [22]	Associated with sudden cardiac death in patients with chronic heart failure in Chinese Han population
ADRB2	rs1042714 [C/G] exon 1	Kulminski et al; 2010 [32]	Associated with the incidence of myocardial infarction in Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort
TGFBR2	rs9838682 [A/G] intron 3	Tseng et al; 2009 [29]	Associate with sudden cardiac arrest in Caucasian patients with coronary artery disease
NOS1AP	rs10494366 [G/T] intron 1	Aarnoudse et al; 2007 [34]	Associated with the QT interval duration in Rotterdam Study cohort

HR = hazard ratio; OR = odds ratio.