SBP	Systolic Blood Pressure
DBP	Diastolic Blood Pressure
PP	Pulse Pressure
MAP	Mean Artery Pressure
HTN	Hypertension
SNV	Single Nucleotide Variant
SNP	Single Nucleotide Polymorphism
MAF	Minor Allele Frequency
EWAS	Exome Wide Association Studies
GWAS	Genome-Wide Association Studies
NGS	Next Generation Sequencing
WGS	Whole Genome Sequencing
WES	Whole Exome Sequencing
CFS	Cleveland Family Study
CHARGE	Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology
ARIC	Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities
CARDIA	Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults
AADM	Africa America Diabetes Mellitus
GENOA	The Genetic Epidemiology Network of Arteriopathy
HUFS	Howard University Family Study
HyperGEN	Hypertension Genetic Epidemiology Network
CHD	Congenital heart disease Exome+
T2D-GENES	The Genetics of Type 2 Diabetes Consortium (GoT2D)/Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Exploration by Next-generation sequencing in multi-Ethnic Samples
REGARDS	REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke
FHS	Framingham Heart Study
GAW	Genetic Analysis Workshop
ESP	Exome Sequencing Project
Betasst	Beta as standardized mean difference
Betassm	SeqMeta Beta
EPACTS	Efficient and Parallelizable Association Container Toolbox
EMMA eXpedited	Efficient Mixed-Model Association eXpedited
GEMMA	Genome-Wide Efficient Mixed Model Association
SKAT	Sequence Kernel Association Test
SKAT-O	Optimal Unified Test
SKAT-C	SKAT-Combined
CAST	Cohort Allelic Sums Test
CMC	Combined Multivariate and Collapsing
w-SUM	Weighted-Sum
SST	Simple Sum Test
VT	Variable-Threshold
RBS	Replication-Based Weighted-Sum Statistic
FPCA	Functional Principal Components Analysis
FBAT	Family-based Association Test
GEE model	Generalized Estimating Equation model
burden-T1-del	burden test on deleterious variants
qMSAT	Quality-based Multivariate Score Association Test
GCTA	Genome-wide Complex Trait Analysis
CAPL	Combined Association in the Presence of Linkage
SVM	support vector machine
USR	Unified Sparse Regression
GLM	Generalized Linear Model
OR	Odds Ratio
N	Sample number
se	Standard Error
CI	Confidence Interval