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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry. 2018 Dec 6;85(11):946–955. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.11.024

Table 4: Estimation of Genetic Correlation Between Smoking and Drinking Traits.

We estimate genetic correlations between five smoking and drinking traits. Genetic correlation estimates (r^g), their standard deviation (se (r^g))and p−values are reported.

Trait 1 Trait 2 Genetic Correlation
r^g se (r^g) P−value
A. Aggregated Genetic Correlation Induced by All Variants on the Exome Array
Drinks per Week Smoking Initiation .43 .06 1.7×10−11
Drinks per Week Age of Initiation of Smoking .01 .13 9.3×10−1
Drinks per Week Pack Years .22 .10 2.6×10−2
Drinks per Week Cigarettes per Day .20 .09 3.1×10−2
Smoking Initiation Age of Initiation of Smoking −.64 .11 1.1×10−8
Smoking Initiation Pack Years .45 .08 4.9×10−8
Smoking Initiation Cigarettes per Day .10 .07 1.5×10−1
Age of Initiation of Smoking Pack Years −.63 .17 2.1×10−4
Age of Initiation of Smoking Cigarettes per Day −.26 .16 9.9×10−2
Pack Years Cigarettes per Day .77 .13 2.2×10−9
B. Genetic Correlation Induced by Rare (MAF < 1%) Nonsynonymous Variants
Drinks per Week Smoking Initiation .49 .08 1.2×10−10
Drinks per Week Age of Initiation of Smoking −.04 .30 8.9×10−1
Drinks per Week Pack Years .08 .02 2.7×10−4
Drinks per Week Cigarettes per Day .09 .02 5.2×10−5
Smoking Initiation Age of Initiation of Smoking −1.10 .21 1.3×10−7
Smoking Initiation Pack Years .63 .08 1.5×10−14
Smoking Initiation Cigarettes per Day .23 .08 3.3×10−3
Age of Initiation of Smoking Pack Years −1.10 .33 1.5×10−3
Age of Initiation of Smoking Cigarettes per Day −.69 .32 3.2×10−2
Pack Years Cigarettes per Day .87 .14 1.4×10−9