We considered three groups of traits with previously published GWAS results: anthropometric, comprising of height, body mass index (BMI), hip circumference (HIP), waste circumference (WC), and waste-to-hip ratio (WHR) from the GIANT consortium GWAS; (Wood et al., 2014; Locke et al., 2015; Shungin et al., 2015) blood pressure traits, comprising of systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP, DBP), pulse pressure (PP = SBP-DBP), and mean arterial pressure (MAP=DBP+1/3PP), with GWASs performed by the International Consortium of Blood Pressure (ICBP) (Wain et al., 2011; International Consortium for Blood Pressure Genome-Wide Association Studies, 2011); and finally, blood count traits, including white blood cell count (WBC), platelet count (PLT), and hemoglobin concentration (HGB) (Tajuddin et al., 2016; Chami et al., 2016; Eicher et al., 2016). Note that for these blood count GWASs, we used just the EA GWAS results and not the transancestry results that were also available.
