Table 1 Sample size and number of genome-wide significant associations

From: Genetics and educational attainment

Years of education

Height

Body-mass index

Ref.

N

#Hits

Ref.

N

#Hits

Ref.

N

#Hits

1

8352

0

4

15,821

12

9

11,536

0

2

101,069

1

5

16,482

20

10

123,865

19

2

126,559

4

6

30,968

27

11

339,224

97

3

293,723

74

7

183,727

180

   

3

405,072

162

8

253,288

697

   
  1. Note. Relationship between the size of the discovery sample and the number of approximately independent loci identified at the genome-wide significance level (“hits”) for three outcomes. 1. Benjamin et alet al.22 2. Rietveld et alet al.9 3. Okbay et alet al.23 4. Lettre et alet al.24 5. Weedon et alet al.19 6. Gubjartsson et alet al.18 7. Lango Allen et alet al.20 8. Wood et alet al.21 9. Liu et al.25 10. Speliotes et al.26 11. Locke et al.27
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