Fig. 2: Properties of 364 pQTLs discovered in a GWAS with MS proteomics.

a–c, Scatterplots of effect size (β) versus minor allele frequency (MAF) (a), pQTL effect size (β) from the discovery (Tarkin) versus from the replication (QMDiab) study (b) and EAFs for Tarkin versus QMDiab (c). All the protein associations that reached a significance level P < 5 × 10−8 in the discovery study are represented, except for b, where only replicated pQTLs are shown (plot data in Supplementary Table 2).