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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Exp Med Biol. 2019;1197:179–189. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-28524-1_13

Table 1.

Phenotypic variance explained for ‘traditional’, clinically-defined oral and dental traits by all genotyped and imputed autosomal SNPs available among the European American participants of the Dental Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities study (n = 4,504).

Genotyped SNPs Imputeda SNPs
Exclusion filters: MAF < 0.05 MAF < 0.05, R2(b) < 0.6
n (SNPs)c: 656,292 2,104,905
variance explained (se) variance explained (se)
Number of remaining teeth
+ 10 PCs for population structure 0.115 (0.07) 0.065 (0.06)
+ 10 PCs, sex, age 0.114 (0.07) 0.064 (0.06)
Incident Tooth Lossd
+ 10 PCs for population structure 0.064 (0.11) 0.006 (0.09)
+ 10 PCs, sex, age 0.055 (0.11) 0.001 (0.10)
DMFS (decayed, missing, filled tooth surfaces due to caries)
+ 10 PCs for population structure 0.126 (0.08) 0.057 (0.06)
+ 10 PCs, sex, age 0.131 (0.08) 0.066 (0.06)
Tooth morbidity (DMFS including teeth lost due to all causes)
+ 10 PCs for population structure 0.256 (0.07) 0.184 (0.06)
+ 10 PCs, sex, age 0.242 (0.07) 0.171 (0.06)
Any periodontitis (moderate/severe versus health/mild)
+ 10 PCs for population structure 0.012 (0.07) 0.039 (0.06)
+ 10 PCs, sex, age 0.018 (0.08) 0.049 (0.06)
Moderate periodontitis (versus health/mild)
+ 10 PCs for population structure 0.006 (0.14) 0.068 (0.12)
+ 10 PCs, sex, age 0.000 (0.14) 0.066 (0.12)
Severe periodontitis (versus health/mild)
+ 10 PCs for population structure 0.175 (0.19) 0.083 (0.16)
+ 10 PCs, sex, age 0.220 (0.19) 0.127 (0.16)
Mean interproximal attachment loss
+ 10 PCs for population structure 0.161 (0.07) 0.122 (0.06)
+ 10 PCs, sex, age 0.152 (0.08) 0.106 (0.06)
Extent of attachment loss ≥ 3mm (proportion of sites)
+ 10 PCs for population structure 0.113 (0.08) 0.073 (0.06)
+ 10 PCs, sex, age 0.075 (0.08) 0.037 (0.06)
Extent of attachment loss ≥ 4mm (proportion of sites)
+ 10 PCs for population structure 0.092 (0.07) 0.053 (0.06)
+ 10 PCs, sex, age 0.076 (0.07) 0.035 (0.06)
Extent of probing depth ≥ 4mm (proportion of sites)
+ 10 PCs for population structure 0.167 (0.07) 0.143 (0.06)
+ 10 PCs, sex, age 0.190 (0.07) 0.150 (0.06)

MAF, minor allele frequency; se, standard error; PCs, principal components

a

Imputed using HapMap II-CEU

b

Imputation quality score

c

Number of SNPs that were used to estimate the genetic relationship matrix after exclusions, among the study participants as a first step in the GCTA prior to conducting REML

d

Incident tooth loss was derived from a follow-up telephone survey in a subset of participants (n = 2,771) and defined as >2 teeth lost during the last decade