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. 2015 Jul 9;6:7501. doi: 10.1038/ncomms8501

Table 2. Set-unique burden of different variant types.

Variant Type Disease status Total genes P value
Deleterious genes Case 4,533 0.008
  Control 3,795  
Splice site Case 380 0.016
  Control 276  
Stop-altering Case 350 0.004
  Control 253  
Double hits Case 179 0.047
  Control 103  

The polygenic burden of deleterious hits, splice site and stop-altering variants and double hits arising from set-unique SNVs (cases n=1,002, controls n=931). The category of double hits includes those genes for which an individual has two or more SNVs (of which at least one is predicted to be deleterious) within the borders of the gene. Each row contains the number of genes having at least one variant. Empirical P values for the difference in gene count are estimated empirically by permutation of phenotypes. Values in bold withstand correction for multiple testing (Supplementary Methods).