cohort contributed to the discovery meta-analyses of BMI, LDLc and CRP). We were also able to exclude the Wellcome Trust hypertension, coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes and control group results from the original Speliotes et al. BMI meta-analysis so that the inclusion of these groups did not bias our analyses of BMI SNPs and WT case control status. However, we were unable to remove the Wellcome Trust hypertension cohort from the Teslovich et al. meta-analysis [3] so this fact should be borne in mind when interpreting the results of these analyses (although LDLc score failed to significantly correlate with hypertension status across most thresholds).
