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Table 1 Phenotypes with causal relationships with knee OA

From: Phenome-wide causal associations between osteoarthritis and other complex traits through the latent causal variable analysis

Phenotype

rG

GCP

P_GCP

Certain infectious and parasitic diseases

0.678

0.742

6.74E-05

Diagnoses - main ICD10: L72 Follicular cysts of skin and subcutaneous tissue

0.434

0.739

3.47E-05

Non-cancer illness code, self-reported: type 2 diabetes

0.320

0.713

3.11E-03

Hip circumference

0.408

-0.606

2.31E-05

Diagnoses - main ICD10: J45 Asthma

0.429

-0.615

5.56E-11

Weight

0.397

-0.641

1.52E-05

Treatment/medication code: atorvastatin

0.252

-0.647

8.07E-25

Non-cancer illness code, self-reported: high cholesterol

0.207

-0.649

4.46E-26

Diagnoses - main ICD10: I50 Heart failure

0.301

-0.672

1.47E-03

Heel bone mineral density (BMD) (left)

0.190

-0.684

6.38E-08

Work hours - lumped category: Over 40 h

0.278

-0.701

2.26E-04

BMI

0.400

-0.708

4.03E-04

Chest pain or discomfort when walking uphill or hurrying

0.364

-0.727

6.02E-05

Meniscus derangement

0.801

-0.733

3.74E-04

IPF (EUR Biobanks)

0.333

-0.782

2.72E-07

Job SOC coding: Higher education teaching professionals

-0.315

-0.799

8.43E-08

Current employment status: Unemployed

0.342

-0.847

7.97E-13

Workplace very dusty: Sometimes

0.702

-0.911

1.19E-28

Glucose

0.138

-0.930

3.55E-61

Treatment/medication code: beclometasone

0.296

-0.941

5.50E-09

Obesity

0.526

-0.943

2.22E-70

  1. Phenotypes with FDR < 0.05 and |GCP| > 0.6. The whole list of phenotypes with significant causal associations with knee OA was provided in Additional file S3, where detailed information of those was provided. OA osteoarthritis, rG genetic correlation, GCP genetic causality proportion, SE standard error, P p value