Since the completion of our study, another BP GWAS using UK Biobank data has been published15, as part of a larger single-stage combined meta-analysis without replication; it reported a total of 316 loci, including 241 loci identified from the meta-analysis involving UK Biobank that were not tested for validation. Of the 107 validated loci reported in our study, 32 are discovered and validated for the first time in our analysis of UK Biobank. In addition, 75 sentinel SNVs are in LD (r2 ≥ 0.2) with the recently reported loci15 and we validate at least 53 of these for the first time in our study (indicated by “GIU” in Tables 1-3). Furthermore we note that 49 of the reported loci from the recent study15 did not validate in our large independent replication resource.
