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Chunk #65 — Online Methods — Statistical methods — Genetic risk scores

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Genome-wide association analysis identifies novel blood pressure loci and offers biological insights into cardiovascular risk.
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We also assess the association of the average BP GRS with cardiovascular outcomes in the UKB data. We include all pairwise-independent previously reported BP variants at the time of analysis, and our validated variants. We use logistic regression with binary outcome variables for coronary heart disease, stroke and cardiovascular disease (see Supplementary Note) and GRS as explanatory variable (with and without sex adjustment).