For conditional analysis, we performed analysis for SPI1 (probe: ILMN_1696463) against all SNPs within ±2Mb from the closest transcript end, by including the following SNPs effective allele copy numbers as covariates in the linear regression model, one at a time: rs1057233, rs10838698, rs7928163, rs10838699, rs10838725, rs1377416. Significance was again assessed with a two-sided Wald test on the OLS estimator of the coefficient β.