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. 2020 Aug 21;11:4183. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17876-0

Fig. 2. Identification of brain cell types associated with diverse human complex traits.

Fig. 2

We used two approaches to identify the associations between genetic risk variants of different complex trait and cell types from (a) substantia nigra and (b) cortex: stratified LD score regression (LDSC) (p value associated with an LDSC Coefficient (“Methods”)) and the MAGMA gene set analysis (one-sided positive two-sample t-test). The heatmap colours give different degrees of significance with both methods or either method, an asterisk (*) and double asterisks (**) indicate nominally significant p value (<0.05) and q value (Bonferroni correction for the number of cell types tested). The different traits were clustered by category: cognitive phenotypes (Cog.), autoimmune diseases (Immune), metabolic, cardiovascular and anthropometric traits (Metabolic/Cardio/Anthropometric), Neurological disorders, Psychiatric disorders.