Table 1 Baseline characteristics and genotyping information of all individuals included in the meta-analysis.

From: Nuclear and mitochondrial genetic variants associated with mitochondrial DNA copy number

 

GCKD

AugUR

CHRIS

Na

4692

2118

9320

Sex (female)

1862 (39.7%)

1112 (52.5%)

5143 (55.2%)

Ageb

60.2 ± 11.9

78.3 ± 5.0

45.8 ± 16.3

Current Smoker

746 (15.9%)

112 (5.3%)

1632 (17.5%)

Leukocyte count (103/µl)b

NA

6.5 ± 2.0

6.2 ± 1.8

Erythrocyte count (106/µl)b

NA

4.5 ± 0.4

4.9 ± 0.5

Platelet count (103/µl)b

NA

240 ± 62

254 ± 57

Mean mtDNA-CNb

107.3 ± 36.5

150.9 ± 43.9

143.5 ± 51.1

DNA source

Whole blood

Whole blood

Whole blood

DNA extraction

Automated magnetic beads-based method

Manual salting out method

Automated magnetic beads-based method

mtDNA-CN measurement

qPCR

qPCR

qPCR

Genotyping array

Illumina Infinium® OMNI 2.5Exome

Illumina Infinium® Global Screening Array (v1/v3)

Illumina Infinium® Human OmniExpressExome, Omni 2.5Exome

Genotype quality control (exclusion criteria)

HWE p < 1 × 10–5; sample call rate < 0.97, SNP call rate prior to imputation < 0.96

HWE p < 1 × 10–8; call rate < 0.95; monomorphic variants

HWE p < 1 × 10–6; call rate < 0.98; monomorphic variants

Imputation

HRC

HRC

HRC

  1. an refers to individuals included in the genome-wide association studies.
  2. bMean ± standard deviation.