Seven SNPs show sex difference.

a<p>Trait and sex for which the SNP was selected;</p>b<p>Gene labels state the nearest gene or the gene as published previously; details on all genes near the association signal can be found in the <a href="http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003500#pgen.1003500.s002" target="_blank">Figure S2</a>;</p>c<p>One-sided P-Values.</p>d<p>larger sample size due to one additional study that did not have hip circumference, and therefore could not contribute to WHRadjBMI.</p>e<p>smaller sample size as this SNP was not on Metabochip.</p><p>Shown are the seven SNPs with significant (at 5% false discovery rate) sex difference in the follow-up data. These seven SNPs exhibit genome-wide significant association in women (joint discovery and follow-up <i>P_women</i><5×10−8) and only two of these show nominally significant association in men (joint <i>P_men</i><0.05). The three loci MAP3K1, HSD17B4, and PPARG are shown here for the first time for their anthropometric trait association as well as for sex-difference.</p

Consistently higher effect sizes for women for all seven loci.

<p>Shown are beta-estimates and 95% confidence intervals for the seven identified SNPs (also stating the phenotype for which the SNP was selected for).</p

Overview of design and findings.

<p>Among the 7 identified loci, we defined those close to (<1 cM) published hits <a href="http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003500#pgen.1003500-LangoAllen1" target="_blank">[25]</a>, <a href="http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003500#pgen.1003500-Speliotes1" target="_blank">[29]</a>, <a href="http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003500#pgen.1003500-Heid1" target="_blank">[31]</a> as <i>near published hit</i>s and <i>novel</i> otherwise. Novel loci with sex-combined discovery P-value<5.8×10⁻⁵, which is the P-value cut-off corresponding to 5% FDR, were declared as loci that <i>could have been discovered also with sex-combined analysis</i>, and otherwise that these <i>would have been missed without the sex-stratified analyses</i>. FDR = false discovery rate.</p

Seven identified SNPs compared to previously published loci.

a<p>The Effect allele refers to a positive effect direction in the discovery stage for the trait and gender, the SNP was selected for;</p>b<p>Gene near this SNP which was published previously from sex-combined analyses.</p><p>The seven SNPs with sex difference are considered to depict a known locus, if the index SNP is close to a published top SNP (<1 cM). These include four of the previously reported sexually dimorphic WHR loci (Heid et al., Nat Genet 2010).</p

Genome-wide scan for sex-specific genome-wide association highlights numerous loci.

<p>(a) Manhattan plot showing the men-specific (upward, up to 60,586 men) and women-specific (downward, up to 73,137 women) association P-values from the discovery with the 619 selected loci colored by the phenotype for which the locus was selected; (b) QQ-plot showing the sex-specific association P-values as observed against those expected under the null overall phenotypes (black) and for each phenotypes separately (colored).</p

Genome-wide sex-difference scan fails to pinpoint loci.

<p>(a) Manhattan plot showing sex-difference P-values, (b) QQ plot for sex-difference P-values overall phenotypes (black) and for each phenotype separately (colored).</p