We combined height summary association statistics from 37 independent studies genotyped using Illumina’s Metabochip array9 in a meta-analysis of 80,067 individuals of European ancestry (Supplementary Tables 20–22). Each study tested association between each genotyped SNP and the same QC procedures, height transformations, adjustment, and inheritance model as described for the GWA analysis. Genomic control correction was applied to results for each study prior to meta-analysis, using a set of 4,427 SNPs associated with QT interval to control study-specific inflation factors. We used the inverse-variance fixed effects meta-analysis method.
