Table 1 |.

Characteristics of the core cohorts in the CARDINAL study

Cohorts	ACCME	AWI-Gen	H3A-KDRN & LUC	GPC/MRC	AADM	SIREN	Eyes of Africa
Study design	Prospective longitudinal cohort study	Cross-sectional study	Case-control and cross-sectional studies	Cross-sectional study	Cross-sectional and cohort studies	Case-control study	Cross-sectional study
Participants’ country of enrollment	Nigeria	Ghana Burkina Faso Kenya South Africa	Nigeria Ghana USA Jamaica	Uganda	Ghana Nigeria Kenya	Nigeria	Nigeria Gambia South Africa Malawi
Number enrolled	11,711	11,057	8,779	6,867	5,231	6,000	8,000
Age in years, mean (±s.d.)	39 (±10)	50.7 (±6.6)	45.8 (±15.3)	34.4 (±5.1)	50 (±13.0)	58.5 (±13.9)	63.2 (±11.19)
Male/female (%)	0/100	45.2/54.8	42.2/57.8	45/55	36.6/63.4	54.9/45.1	44.7/55.3
No. genotyped after quality control	11,337	10,676	10,355	6,407	5,231	3,421	-
Genotyping array	Illumina H3Africa Array	Illumina H3Africa Array	Illumina H3Africa Array, MetaboChip, BeadChip; Affymetrix 6.0	Illumina Human Omni2.5–8 array	Illumina Multiethnic Genotyping Array (MEGA); Affymetrix PanAFR Array	Illumina H3Africa Array	Illumina H3Africa Array