GWAS

We used regenie for release 8. Regenie's main advantages are fast leave-one-chromosome-out relatedness calculation which avoids proximal contamination, and use of an approximate Firth test which gives more reliable effect size estimates for rare variants.

We used regenie version 2.2.4.

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The Docker image used in the analysis is available in Docker Hub.

We analyzed:

  • ​2,202 endpoints

  • 342,499 samples

  • 20,175,455 variants

We included the following covariates in the model: sex, age, 10 PCs, genotyping batch.

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