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Table 1 Summary of complex traits/diseases and implicated tissues

From: scGWAS: landscape of trait-cell type associations by integrating single-cell transcriptomics-wide and genome-wide association studies

Trait/disease name

Abbr

Year

# samples

Implied tissue

pBH(deTS)

Alcohol use disorder [22]

AUD

2019

202,004

Brain—cerebellum

0.08

Alzheimer’s disease [23]

AD

2018

455,258

Whole blood

9.94 × 10−9

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [24]

ALS

2016

36,052

Heart—atrial appendage

0.28

Anxiety, anxiety-continuous [25]

ANX

2016

18,186

Brain—spinal cord (cervical c-1)

0.10

Anxiety tension-special-factor-of-neuroticism[26]

ANEU

2019

270,059

Brain—anterior cingulate cortex (BA24)

6.49 × 10−3

Asthma [27]

Asthma

2017

127,669

Spleen

9.71 × 10−3

Attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder [28]

ADHD

2017

53,293

Brain—anterior cingulate cortex (BA24)

9.05 × 10−4

PGC Autism, Autism-Europeans [29]

ASD

2017

13,574

Heart—atrial appendage

0.40

Bipolar disorder [30]

BD

2018

51,710

Brain—anterior cingulate cortex (BA24)

6.85 × 10−4

Blood lipids, high-density lipoprotein [31]

HDL

2010

99,900

Liver

6.62 × 10−4

Blood lipids, low-density lipoprotein [31]

LDL

2010

95,454

Liver

2.11 × 10−8

Blood lipids, total cholesterol [31]

TC

2010

100,184

Liver

6.91 × 10−10

Blood lipids, triglycerides [31]

TG

2010

96,598

Liver

1.31 × 10−8

Body mass index [32]

BMI

2015

234,069

Colon—sigmoid

0.02

CAD resting heart rate [33]

CAD_RHR

2016

265,046

Liver

4.80 × 10−3

Coronary artery disease [34]

CAD

2017

63,731

Artery—aorta

0.01

Depressive symptoms [35]

DS

2019

181,045

Adrenal gland

0.18

Educational attainment, education years all [36]

EDU

2016

293,723

Brain—frontal cortex (BA9)

3.31 × 10−4

General factor of neuroticism [26]

GNEU

2019

270,059

Brain—nucleus accumbens (basal ganglia)

3.10 × 10−5

Heart failure [37]

HF

2018

394,156

Artery—aorta

0.19

Height [38]

Height

2014

253,288

Artery—tibial

0.02

Internalizing problems [39]

IP

2014

4596

Adrenal gland

0.44

Lipoprotein concentrations, HDL [40]

LIP_HDL

2009

19,840

Adipose—visceral (omentum)

0.03

Lung function, FEV1/FVC [41]

FEV1

2019

316,614

Artery—tibial

1.52 × 10−5

Lung function, FVC [41]

FVC

2019

317,222

Colon—sigmoid

1.04 × 10−3

Major depressive disorder [42]

MDD

2018

42,455

Brain—anterior cingulate cortex (BA24)

0.04

Multiple sclerosis [43]

MS

2018

41,505

Spleen

9.03 × 10−15

Neuroticism [35]

NEU

2019

523,783

Brain—cerebellar hemisphere

9.18 × 10−3

Obsessive–compulsive disorder [44]

OCD

2017

9,725

Brain—cerebellum

0.05

Pancreatic cancer [45]

PanCan

2009

3,576

Adipose—subcutaneous

0.73

Parkinson’s disease [46]

PD

2012

8,477

Brain—cerebellum

3.65 × 10−4

Resting heart rate [47]

RHR

2019

458,969

Heart—atrial appendage

9.27 × 10−17

Rheumatoid arthritis [48]

RA

2014

58,284

Spleen

2.80 × 10−10

Schizophrenia [49]

SCZ

2018

74,626

Brain—frontal cortex (BA9)

6.60 × 10−3

SSGAC College [50]

COL

2013

101,069

Brain—cerebellar hemisphere

2.76 × 10−3

Subjective wellbeing [51]

SWB

2016

298,420

Brain—amygdala

0.20

Type 2 diabetes [52]

T2D

2017

159,208

Brain—spinal cord (cervical c-1)

0.10

Type 1 diabetes [53]

T1D

2011

26,890

Spleen

8.64 × 10−9

Type 1 diabetes, childhood adiposity age under17 [54]

T1D_C

2017

14,741

Spleen

7.61 × 10−10

Waist format 2: Waist hip ratio [55]

WHR

2015

143,480

Esophagus—Muscularis

0.04

  1. PGC Psychiatric Genomics Consortium