The GIANT Consortium performed a conditional meta-analysis for height3 in a subset of stage 1 studies including 106,336 individuals and identified 19 secondary signals at 19 loci at P < 3.3 × 10–7. The GIANT conditional meta-analysis only reported one secondary signal at each of the 19 loci, because it was too time-consuming to conduct a single run of the conditional meta-analysis to take the process further. There are 16 loci associated with height that were reported by GIANT3 with secondary SNPs at P < 5 × 10–8, all of which overlapped with our set of 36 loci with multiple associated SNPs. The concordance of these results provides a technical replication of the analysis methods.
