Table 1.
Alleles | Minor Allele Frequency | Case Allele Counts | Control Allele Counts | Association | |||||||||
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Minor | Major | All | Cases | Controls | A1 | A2 | A1 | A2 | p | OR | Cochran’s Q | I2 | |
Denmark | A | G | 0.00020 | 0 | 0.00040 | 0 | 2,534 | 1 | 2,475 | 0.375 | – | – | – |
Germany | A | G | 0.00025 | 0 | 0.00026 | 2 | 8,950 | 3 | 11,425 | 0.845 | – | – | – |
Italy | A | G | 0.00048 | 0.00065 | 0.00032 | 2 | 3,058 | 1 | 3,161 | 0.677 | – | – | – |
Netherlands | A | G | 0.00042 | 0.00087 | 0.00028 | 1 | 1,151 | 1 | 3,609 | 0.317 | – | – | – |
Norway | A | G | 0.00116 | 0.00127 | 0.00098 | 2 | 1,572 | 1 | 1,015 | 0.822 | – | – | – |
Sweden | A | G | 0.00041 | 0.00053 | 0.00027 | 7 | 13,139 | 3 | 10,989 | 0.331 | – | – | – |
UK/Austrailia | A | G | 0.00060 | 0.00054 | 0.00064 | 9 | 16,559 | 15 | 23,263 | 0.963 | – | – | – |
USA/Boston | A | G | 0.00050 | 0.00042 | 0.00060 | 5 | 11,931 | 6 | 10,046 | 0.955 | – | – | – |
USA/UCSF | A | G | 0.00048 | 0.00083 | 0.00000 | 3 | 3,627 | 0 | 2,660 | 0.127 | – | – | – |
Meta-analysis | A | G | – | – | – | 31 | – | 31 | – | 0.3293 | 1.064 | 0.825 | 0 |
We meta-analyzed 32,852 cases and 36,538 controls of European ancestry in 14 country-level strata using linear mixed models to control for stratification. We detected the minor allele rs61731956-A in nine of our strata, but find no evidence of association to overall MS risk.