Table 2. Characteristics of seven SNPs finally selected for our analysis.

N	SNP	Chr	Allele change	Position	SNP source	H-W p value	Reference	MAF#
1	rs3851179	11	G→A	5′ downstream	GWAS	0.9485	[Harold9] [Seshadri10]	0.3149
2	rs561655	11	A→G	5′ downstream	GWAS & Meta-analysis	0.8524	[Lambert11] [Jun15]	0.3407
3	rs543293	11	G→A	5′ downstream	Replication	0.625	[Lee15] [Jun36]	0.2923
4	rs592297	11	T→C	Exon 5	This SNP is associated with specific PICALM isoform expression level and in strong LD with rs3851179 and is a part of an exonic splice enhancer region in exon 5	0.8578	[Parikh37] [Schnetz38]	0.2113
5	rs7941541	11	A→G	5′ downstream	Replication study	0.7482	[Lee36]	0.289
6	rs1237999	11	A→G	5′ downstream	GWAS	0.8185	[Harold9]	0.3297
7	rs642949	11	T→C	Intron region of NM_001008660.2	This SNP is in strong LD with rs592997	0.4931	[Furney39]	0.4459

Abbreviation: MAF = Minor Allele Frequency; SNP = Single Nucleotide Polymorphism; H-W = Hardy-Weinberg.

^#MAF data was calculated by Haploview 4.2.