are not independent. All 28 SNPs correlated with rs56137030 (r2>0.5) in AA are located between 53,800,954 and 53,845,487, spanning a 44.5 kb region about 104.8 kb downstream of the exon 1 boundary, and ending about 1.4 Kb after exon 2 ends [no variant in exon 2 was genotyped or imputed and, to our knowledge, only 3 variants (rs116753298, rs149393601, and chr16:53844100) all with allele frequency <0.1% have been reported in FTO exon 2 so far [36], [37]].
