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. 2018 Dec 27;104(1):65–75. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.11.008

Table 1.

FINDOR Increases Power across 27 UK Biobank Traits

Class Trait N hg2 145K
459K
Unweighted FINDOR %Improve Unweighted FINDOR %Improve
Anthropometric balding type I 68K/208K 0.21 96 100 4.2% 334 346 3.6%
body mass index 145K/458K 0.28 117 132 12.8% 908 950 4.6%
heel T score 141K/446K 0.33 300 308 2.7% 1,130 1149 1.7%
height 145K/458K 0.64 674 690 2.4% 2,395 2402 0.3%
waist-hip ratio 145K/458K 0.17 98 104 6.1% 460 506 10.0%
Blood Cell eosinophil count 140K/440K 0.21 187 200 7.0% 699 731 4.6%
mean corpular hemoglobin 141K/443K 0.22 237 248 4.6% 765 791 3.4%
red blood cell (RBC) count 141K/445K 0.25 192 206 7.3% 840 885 5.4%
RBC distribution width 141K/445K 0.20 198 212 7.1% 652 674 3.4%
white blood cell count 131K/444K 0.21 148 165 11.5% 713 750 5.2%
Disease auto immune traits 145K/459K 0.04 14 18 28.6% 75 86 14.7%
cardiovascular diseases 145K/459K 0.12 38 49 28.9% 285 314 10.2%
eczema 145K/459K 0.08 35 46 31.4% 181 198 9.4%
hypothyroidism 145K/459K 0.05 27 30 11.1% 139 153 10.1%
respiratory diseases 145K/459K 0.06 24 29 20.8% 104 109 4.8%
type 2 diabetes 145K/459K 0.05 14 14 0.0% 76 86 13.2%
Other age at menarche 75K/242K 0.25 52 56 7.7% 318 338 6.3%
age at menopause 44K/143K 0.11 18 18 0.0% 85 91 7.1%
FEV1-FVC ratio 124K/370K 0.27 174 185 6.3% 684 714 4.4%
forced vital capacity (FVC) 124K/372K 0.23 90 99 10.0% 544 565 3.9%
hair color 143K/452K 0.14 140 143 2.1% 428 436 1.9%
morning person 130K/410K 0.11 14 14 0.0% 156 165 5.8%
neuroticism 124K/372K 0.11 11 16 45.5% 128 149 16.4%
smoking status 145K/458K 0.10 18 24 33.3% 154 178 15.6%
sunburn occasion 109K/344K 0.07 23 25 8.7% 78 82 5.1%
systolic blood pressure 134K/422K 0.22 98 106 8.2% 666 703 5.6%
years of education 144K/455K 0.14 17 24 41.2% 286 315 10.1%
overall 145K/459K NA 3,054 3,261 6.8% 13,283 13866 4.4%
average per-trait 130K/409K 0.18 113 120 13% 491 513 6.9%

For each trait, we report the number of independent, genome-wide significant loci identified by the unweighted approach and by FINDOR in the 145K and 459K UK Biobank releases. Complete results are reported in Table S7.