TABLE 2.
Characteristics of nine polygenic risk scores (PRS).
| PRS | Selection criteria | Number of SNPs | Correlation with height (r) |
| PRS.0 | P < 5E-08 (2014) | 697 | 0.34 |
| PRS.1 | P < 5E-09 (2018) | 3,290 | 0.38 |
| PRS.2 | P < 5E-02 (2018) | 30,615 | 0.47 |
| PRS.3 | P < 5E-03 (2018) | 18,432 | 0.45 |
| PRS.4 | P < 5E-04 (2018) | 12,657 | 0.44 |
| PRS.5 | P < 5E-05 (2018) | 9,410 | 0.43 |
| PRS.6 | P < 5E-06 (2018) | 7,349 | 0.42 |
| PRS.7 | P < 5E-07 (2018) | 5,920 | 0.41 |
| PRS.8 | P < 5E-08 (2018) | 4,932 | 0.41 |
*All SNPs are independent, either based on the published paper or based on PLINK pruning methods used in this study. “(2014)” refers to ref. (Wood et al., 2014) and “(2018)” refers to ref. (Yengo et al., 2018).