However, in general, tissues expected to stand out as more enriched for diseases given currently known biology did not consistently do so when we looked at the average across all (significant) genes, using various measures of enrichment. For example, the enrichment in liver was less apparent for high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) or triglyceride levels. We find for many significant associations that the evidence is present across multiple tissues. This may be caused by a combination of context specificity and sharing of regulatory mechanism across tissues.
