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Chunk #37 — GWAS discoveries, sample size and ancestry diversity

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A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height.
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genetic instruments (Supplementary Table 16) as an alternative gene-level metric and found it to saturate for n values greater than 4 million (Supplementary Fig. 23f). Note that saturation of SMR genes is partly affected by the statistical power of current eQTL studies, which do not always survey biologically relevant tissues and cell types for height. Therefore, we can expect more genes to be prioritized when integrating GWAS summary statistics from this study with those from larger eQTL studies that may be available in the future and may involve more tissue types. Gene-level metrics were also not substantially affected by adding non-EUR samples, again consistent with broadly similar sets of genes affecting height across ancestries.