Table 5.

Overlap between eQTL and significant variants

Set	Cells collected from milk samples			Blood cells
	Total	eQTL	%	Total	eQTL	%
All	9,191,239	6678	0.07	8,587,100	52,802	0.61
pgwas_fat % ≤ 10−8	22,152	9	0.04	20,702	476	2.30
pmeta_fat % ≤ 10−8	20,087	3	0.01	18,735	633	3.38
pgwas_prot % ≤ 10−8	28,967	5	0.02	27,781	1081	3.89
pmeta_prot % ≤ 10−8	33,911	13	0.04	32,505	1496	4.60

All: all variants present in both meta-analysis and eQTL study; p_gwas_fat % ≤ 10⁻⁸, p_gwas_prot % ≤ 10⁻⁸, p_meta_fat % ≤ 10⁻⁸ and p_meta_prot % ≤ 10⁻⁸: variants with a p-value ≤ 10⁻⁸ in at least one of the within population GWAS and meta-analysis for fat and protein percentage, respectively; total: total number of variants in a set of variants, eQTL: number of variants in a set that were eQTL,  %: eQTL total*100%