Table 2 Association results for the top validated SNPs.

From: Identification of regulatory variants associated with genetic susceptibility to meningococcal disease

SNP

rs4823231

rs11913168

rs72710816

rs79840975

rs17428132

rs1877782

Chromosome

22

22

5

18

6

15

location (base pair)

46088119

30606564

97562

56209387

32687119

90703836

risk allele

T

A

C

T

T

A

Validation method

Sequenom

GWAS array

Sequenom

Sequenom

Sequenom

Sequenom

Meta-analysis

P-value

9.58 × 10−5

3.46 × 10−3

0.014

0.031

0.032

0.047

Odds ratio

0.7

0.8

1.3

0.6

0.8

0.8

Discovery – Western Europe

P-value

1.12 × 10−3

8.69 × 10−3

2.99 × 10−3

4.06 × 10−4

2.52 × 10−3

1.40 × 10−3

Frequency in cases

0.16

0.07

0.14

0.02

0.34

0.20

Frequency in controls

0.25

0.13

0.08

0.08

0.46

0.29

Odds ratio

0.6

0.5

2.0

0.3

0.7

0.6

Validation – Western Europe

P-value

0.10

0.21

0.56

0.20

0.49

0.48

Frequency in cases

0.13

0.10

0.11

0.04

0.41

0.25

Frequency in controls

0.17

0.12

0.10

0.06

0.47

0.27

Odds ratio

0.7

0.8

1.1

0.7

0.8

0.9

Validation - Spain

P-value

0.18

0.53

0.24

0.93

0.75

1.00

Frequency in cases

0.14

0.09

0.14

0.03

0.40

0.23

Frequency in controls

0.16

0.10

0.12

0.03

0.40

0.23

Odds ratio

0.8

0.9

1.2

1.0

1.0

1.0

Validation - UK

P-value

0.12

0.037

0.25

0.12

0.68

0.030

Frequency in cases

0.15

0.09

0.13

0.03

0.37

0.23

Frequency in controls

0.19

0.11

0.11

0.05

0.38

0.29

Odds ratio

0.8

0.8

1.3

0.6

0.9

0.7