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From: Genetic pleiotropy between multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia but not bipolar disorder: differential involvement of immune-related gene loci

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Genetic pleiotropy enrichment of schizophrenia (SCZ) conditional on MS. (a) Conditional Q-Q plot of nominal versus empirical −log10 P-values (corrected for inflation) in SCZ below the standard GWAS threshold of P<5 × 10−8 as a function of significance of association with multiple sclerosis (MS) at the level of −log10(P)0, −log10(P)1, −log10(P)2, −log10(P)3 corresponding to P1, P0.1, P0.01, P0.001, respectively. Dotted lines indicate the null hypothesis. (b) Conditional true discovery rate (TDR) plots illustrating the increase in TDR associated with increased pleiotropic enrichment in SCZ conditioned on MS (SCZ|MS). (c) Cumulative replication plot showing the average rate of replication (P<0.05) within SCZ substudies for a given P-value threshold shows that pleiotropic enriched SNP categories replicate at a higher rate in independent SCZ samples, for SCZ conditioned on MS (SCZ|MS). The vertical intercept is the overall replication rate per category. (d) Z-score-z-score plot demonstrates that the empirical replication z-scores closely match the expected a posteriori effect sizes of SCZ and are strongly dependent upon pleiotropy with MS. Analysis is based on split half method of the 17 PGC SCZ substudies.

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