2017 Body mass index GWAS results in the Biobank Japan project

Descrption:

These files were the results of GWAS for body mass index in the Biobank Japan project released via National Bioscience Database Center (NBDC).

Uploaded files:

File name Number of samples Number of variants
All_2017_BMI_BBJ_autosome.txt.gz 158,284 5,961,600
Male_2017_BMI_BBJ_autosome.txt.gz 85,894 5,961,600
Male_2017_BMI_BBJ_Xchromosome.txt.gz 85,894 147,353
Female_2017_BMI_BBJ_autosome.txt.gz 72,390 5,961,600
Female_2017_BMI_BBJ_Xchromosome.txt.gz 72,390 147,353

Column:

Number of column column description
1 SNP marker name
2 CHR chromosome
3 POS position (hg19)
4 REF reference allele
5 ALT alternative allele
6 Frq alternative allele frequency
7 Rsq imputation quality
8 BETA beta
9 SE standard error
10 P P-value

・ Alternative alleles were used as effect alleles.
・ Association analysis was performed using mach2qtl software (Li Y. et al, Genet. Epidemiol. 2010).

Link:

The biobank Japan project
National Bioscience Database Center Human Database
RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences

Reference:

If you use these date, please cite the following paper:
Akiyama et al. Genome-wide association study identifies 112 new loci for body mass index in the Japanese population.
Nat Genet (2017). doi:10.1038/ng.3951