Genotyping was performed at Life and Brain, Bonn, Germany, with the Illumina
HumanExome BeadChip v1.0 (N=247,870 variants) or v1.1 (N=242,901 variants). Illumina’s GenTrain version 2.0 clustering algorithm in GenomeStudio or zCall
1 was used for genotype calling. Quality control (QC) filters were implemented for sample call rate excluding samples with >1% missingness, excess autosomal heterozygosity excluding outliers based on <1% and >1% minor allele frequency (MAF) separately, gender discordance, relatedness excluding one of each pair related with IBD ≥ 0.125 (the level expected for first cousins), and population outliers (i.e. non European ancestry). Variants were filtered based on call rate excluding variants with >1% missingness, genotype cluster separation excluding variants with a separation score < 0.4 and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) excluding variants with
PHWE < 1×10
-4. Ten principal components (PCs) were extracted using EIGENSTRAT, including the first three PCs as covariates had the maximum impact on the genomic control inflation factor,
λ2. After QC 6,000 LOAD cases and 2,974 elderly controls (version 1.0; 4,093 LOAD cases and 1,599 controls, version 1.1; 1,907 LOAD cases and 1,375 controls) remained. The version 1.0 array had 244,412 variants available for analysis and 239,814 remained for the version 1.1 array.
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