11). We found that a high density of height-associated SNPs is significantly correlated with the presence of an OMIM gene nearby19,20 (enrichment fold of OMIM gene when density is greater than 1: 2.5×; P < 0.001; Methods and Extended Data Fig. 4a). Notably, the enrichment of OMIM genes almost linearly increases with the density of height-associated SNPs (Extended Data Fig. 4b). Thus, these 12,111 GWS SNPs nonrandomly cluster near each other and near known skeletal growth genes.
