This study is approved by the University of Queensland Human Research Ethics Committee (approval number: 2011001173). All the analyses of eQTL/mQTL data were performed based on summary-level data. A summary description of all the data sets can be found in Supplementary Table 1, Supplementary Table 3, and Supplementary Table 6. All the samples were of European descent and the summary data available to us were derived from individual-level data that passed stringent quantify control (QC)9,11,18–20,36–38. The SNPs in all eQTL/mQTL data sets were from imputation of the genotyped data to the 1000 Genomes Project (1KGP) reference panels52, and only the SNPs with MAF > 0.01 were included in analyses.
