The FTLD-TDP cases and CHOP control samples were genotyped on either the Illumina HH550 BeadChip or the Illumina human610-quad BeadChip at the Center for Applied Genomics at CHOP as previously described14. The 1958 birth cohort samples were genotyped on the HH550 BeadChip by the WTCCC27. Sixteen individuals, 13 cases and 3 controls, were excluded from GWA phase for low genotyping (<98% chip-wide genotyping success). We further rejected 13,316 SNPs with call rates <95%, 23,552 SNPs with MAF < 1% and 1,940 SNPs with Hardy Weinberg equilibrium P<10−5 in the controls samples; the λ was 1.05. Cases and controls were screened for relatedness using the IBS estimations in plink (http://pngu.mgh.harvard.edu/~purcell/plink/index.shtml) on 100,000 randomly distributed markers throughout the genome. Pairwise Pi-hat values in excess of 0.01 were indicative of relatedness.
