Chunk #10 — Materials and methods — Selection of 56 SNPs

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Genetic risk sum score comprised of common polygenic variation is associated with body mass index.

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selection threshold was more liberal than the traditional genome-wide significance threshold, it was more conservative than other models of complex disease risk prediction (Evans et al. 2009; Purcell et al. 2009). Supplemental Table 1 details information on the 78 catalogued SNPs.