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. 2020 Jan 13;22(8):1310–1315. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntaa006

Table 2.

LDSC Heritability Enrichment of Each Gene Set Annotation Within the Full Baseline + LD Model for the Four Smoking Phenotypes and One Control Trait Across the Two Smoking Gene Sets and Three Control Gene Sets

Trait Gene set Proportion of SNPs in annotation h 2 SNP proportion h 2 SNP proportion SE Enrichment Enrichment SE p
Age of initiation Nicotinic 0.008 0.016 0.004 1.840 0.467 .075
Cigarettes per day Nicotinic 0.008 0.028 0.009 3.274 1.092 .045
Drinks per week Nicotinic 0.008 0.013 0.002 1.593 0.240 .014
Smoking cessation Nicotinic 0.008 0.022 0.005 2.640 0.628 .010*
Smoking initiation Nicotinic 0.008 0.020 0.005 2.375 0.601 .024
Age of initiation Smokescreen 0.054 0.098 0.013 1.811 0.242 .001*
Cigarettes per day Smokescreen 0.054 0.121 0.019 2.238 0.356 .001*
Drinks per week Smokescreen 0.054 0.079 0.013 1.471 0.236 .049
Smoking cessation Smokescreen 0.054 0.075 0.006 1.401 0.114 <.001*
Smoking initiation Smokescreen 0.054 0.100 0.016 1.851 0.295 .006*
Age of initiation Height 0.030 0.027 0.006 0.914 0.212 .686
Cigarettes per day Height 0.030 0.035 0.007 1.169 0.249 .494
Drinks per week Height 0.030 0.029 0.004 0.973 0.137 .846
Smoking cessation Height 0.030 0.030 0.004 1.020 0.135 .884
Smoking initiation Height 0.030 0.027 0.008 0.912 0.255 .731
Age of initiation ALZ 0.043 0.072 0.012 1.685 0.286 .015
Cigarettes per day ALZ 0.043 0.039 0.007 0.910 0.160 .573
Drinks per week ALZ 0.043 0.053 0.007 1.243 0.162 .137
Smoking cessation ALZ 0.043 0.050 0.005 1.171 0.128 .183
Smoking initiation ALZ 0.043 0.039 0.010 0.905 0.225 .675
Age of initiation IBD 0.012 0.016 0.007 1.350 0.606 .564
Cigarettes per day IBD 0.012 0.017 0.005 1.443 0.417 .284
Drinks per week IBD 0.012 0.018 0.004 1.565 0.341 .104
Smoking cessation IBD 0.012 0.020 0.007 1.713 0.575 .217
Smoking initiation IBD 0.012 0.021 0.010 1.841 0.888 .345

LDSC = linkage disequilibrium–score regression.

*p < .01, the within-trait Bonferroni correction for multiple testing.