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Chunk #55 — Methods — Hold-out sample from the UK Biobank

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A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height.
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We excluded 56,477 UK Biobank (UKB) participants from our discovery GWAS for following analyses including quantification of population stratification. More precisely, our hold-out EUR sample consists of 17,942 sibling pairs and 981 trios (two parents and one child) plus all UKB participants with an estimated genetic relationship larger than 0.05 with our set of sibling pairs and trios. We identified 14,587 individuals among these 56,477 UKB participants who were unrelated (unrelatedness was determined as when the genetic relationship coefficient estimated from HM3 SNPs was lower than 0.05) to each other and used their data to quantify the variance explained by SNPs within GWS loci (described below) and the prediction accuracy of PGSs.