Table 1 Baseline characteristics of participants in the discovery and replication cohorts.

From: The genetic architecture of membranous nephropathy and its potential to improve non-invasive diagnosis

Cohort

Ancestry

No. of cases

No. of controls

Total

Genotyping platform

Imputation reference population panel

Asian Cohorts

  Chinese Discovery

East Asian

561

904

1465

Zhonghua-8 chip (Illumina)

1000G Phase 3 East Asians

  Korean Discovery

East Asian

164

708

872

MEGA chip (Illumina)

1000G Phase 3 East Asians

  Japanese Discovery

East Asian

81

358

439

MEGA chip (Illumina)

1000G Phase 3 East Asians

  Chinese Replication

East Asian

826

1239

2065

KASP (targeted)

  All Asian

 

1632

3209

4841

  

European Cohorts

  European Discovery 1

European

611

1246

1857

MEGA chip (Illumina)

1000G Phase 3 Europeans

  European Discovery 2

European

1045

1094

2139

MEGA chip (Illumina)

1000G Phase 3 Europeans

  Turkish Discovery

European

254

336

590

MEGA chip (Illumina)

1000G Phase 3 Europeans

  Sardinian Discovery

European

93

1498

1591

OmniExpress (Illumina)

1000G Phase 3 Europeans

  GCKD Discovery

European

147

1655a

1802

Omni2.5Exome (Illumina)

HRC 1.1

  All European

 

2150

5829

7979

  

  All Participants

 

3782

9038

12,820

  
  1. aGCKD participants with chronic kidney disease etiology assigned to a non-MN cause (see Methods).