Table 2 Number of significant (p-value < 5e-8) variants associated with cross-sectional (CS) and longitudinal (LT) biomarker traits using multiple-trait and single-trait longitudinal GWAS as well as a conventional rate of change GWAS.

From: Fast multiple-trait genome-wide association analysis for correlated longitudinal measurements

Field ID

Cluster

Biomarker trait

GAMUT1

GALLOP2

Conventional GWAS3

CS

LT

CS

LT

Rate of change

30890

1

Vitamin D

11

0

10

0

1

30630

Apolipoprotein A

20

0

11

0

0

30760

HDL cholesterol

23

1

23

0

0

30660

Direct bilirubin

57

40

18

0

9

30840

Total bilirubin

63

175

57

0

11

30830

SHBG

26

0

43

0

1

30850

Testosterone

11

0

25

0

0

30740

2

Glucose

5

0

41

0

0

30750

Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c)

8

0

14

2

0

30880

Urate

31

0

13

0

4

30710

C-reactive protein

24

0

1

0

0

30870

Triglycerides

19

27

2

0

1

30670

Urea

1

0

24

0

0

30700

Creatinine

3

0

19

27

0

30720

Cystatin C

20

1

3

0

0

30610

Alkaline phosphatase

41

0

4

0

1

30730

Gamma glutamyl transferase

14

2

20

1

0

30620

Alanine aminotransferase

2

1

6

0

1

30650

Aspartate aminotransferase

12

0

31

0

1

30860

3

Total protein

5

0

4

0

0

30600

Albumin

2

0

5

0

0

30680

Calcium

4

0

2

0

0

30770

4

IGF-1

6

0

49

0

0

30810

Phosphate

3

0

27

0

1

30790

Lipoprotein A

50

0

34

0

1

30690

Cholesterol

17

0

3

0

1

30640

Apolipoprotein B

35

1

6

0

3

30780

LDL direct

26

0

18

0

1

Total significant associations

539

248

513

30

37

  1. 1Genome-wide associations for multiple longitudinal traits (1 joint analysis per cluster).
  2. 2Single-trait longitudinal genome-wide association studies.
  3. 3Conventional genome-wide association studies on rates of change for each trait.