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. 2018 Jan 18;208(4):1565–1584. doi: 10.1534/genetics.117.300489

Table 2. Trait-associated variants with Bonferroni-corrected significant evidence of being under polygenic adaptation in the Lazaridis et al. (2014) dataset, using the QX statistic: P<0.05/n, where n is the number of GWAS tested, assuming a χ2 distribution.

Graph Trait P Prand Pemp
Seven-leaf graph (w/EuropeA) Height** 1.506*108 <0.001 <0.001
Photic sneeze reflex** 0.00087 <0.001 0.006
Educational attainment** 6.11*106 0.001 0.001
Unibrow 4.763*107 0.173 <0.001
Seven-leaf graph (w/EuropeB) Height** 2.448108 <0.001 <0.001
Educational attainment** 6.838106 <0.001 0.001
Age at voice drop** 0.000953 <0.001 0.001
Photic sneeze reflex** 0.00086 <0.001 0.001
Unibrow 2.784*106 0.166 <0.001
Seven-leaf graph (w/EuropeC) Educational attainment** 4.032106 <0.001 <0.001
Photic sneeze reflex 0.000653 0.004 0.004
Unibrow 2.957106 0.199 <0.001

We tested three different graphs with different sets of European panels, containing either low (EuropeA), medium (EuropeB), or high (EuropeC) EEF ancestry. We also computed P-values from 1000 samples in which we randomly switched the sign of effect size estimates, to simulate neutrality while preserving the genetic architecture of the traits (Prand). Additionally, we computed P-values from an empirical null distribution produced using 1000 samples, each containing SNPs that were frequency-matched to the trait-associated SNPs, using their allele frequency in Europeans, to account for each GWAS’s ascertainment scheme (Pemp).

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Trait-associated variants for which Prand<0.05/n.

*

Trait-associated variants for which Prand<0.05.