Table 1 Summary of cell specificity for 26 traits

From: Genetic mapping of cell type specificity for complex traits

Trait

Datasetsa

Step 1b

Step 2c

Step 3d

Summary of independent cell typese

Cardiovascular

  CAD

14

68

16

4

Endothelial cell, astrocytes and muscle cells

  DBP

13

31

16

3

Endothelial cell and brain pericyte

  HBP

15

45

19

3

Endothelial cell, brain pericyte and oligodendrocyte

  PR

7

11

8

4

Cardiac muscle cell, smooth muscle cell, endothelial cell and mural cell

  SBP

15

53

17

2

Endothelial cell and oligodendrocyte precursor cell

Immunological

  IBD

22

104

25

4

Microglia, blood cell, endothelial cell and marrow B-cell

  MS

8

15

10

4

Marrow B-cell, microglia, professional antigen-presenting cell and dendritic cell

  RA

17

61

19

5

Marrow B-cell, blood cell, microglia and professional antigen-presenting cell

  SLE

10

23

12

3

Mammary macrophage, lung B-cell and microglia

  T1D

5

15

5

3

Marrow B-cell, endothelial cell and microglia

Metabolic

  BF

0

0

  BMI

17

147

20

4

4 cluster of neurons

  CKD

0

0

  OB

4

14

5

5

5 cluster of neurons and leukocyte

  WHR

21

187

25

6

Endothelial cell, mesenchymal cell, vascular smooth muscle and outer bulge

Cognitive

  EA

16

180

20

5

5 clusters of neurons

  IQ

16

220

18

4

4 clusters of neurons

Neurological

  AD

3

3

3

Monocyte and microglia

  EPL

0

0

  ISM

1

1

Substantia innominate

  IV

0

0

Psychiatric

  ADHD

0

0

  MDD

1

1

Inhibitory neuron

  NEU

13

87

15

5

5 clusters of neurons and pars tuberalis

  SCZ

20

187

25

5

5 clusters of neurons

  SWB

1

1

Layer 5 intratelencephaic neuron

  1. aNumber of unique datasets of significantly associated cell types from step 1
  2. bNumber of significant cell types after Bonferroni correction across datasets
  3. cNumber of cell types retained after step 2 (within dataset conditional analyses)
  4. dNumber of cell types which are mostly independent across datasets based on step 3 (cross-datasets conditional analyses)
  5. eGeneral type of cell types which are mostly independent from step 3, detailed results are available in Supplementary Data 5