The discovery phase samples were genotyped with the
Axiom Spain Biobank Array (Thermo Fisher Scientific) following the manufacturer’s instructions in the Santiago de Compostela Node of the National Genotyping Center (CeGen-ISCIII;
http://www.usc.es/cegen). This array contains 757 836 markers, including rare variants selected in the Spanish population. Genomic DNA was obtained from peripheral blood and isolated using the Chemagic DNA Blood100 kit (PerkinElmer Chemagen Technologies GmbH), following the manufacturer’s recommendations.
For the second phase study samples, a total of 250 ng of DNA was processed according to the
Infinium HTS assay Protocol (Part # 15045738 Rev. A, Illumina), including amplification, fragmentation and hybridization using the Global Screening Array Multi-disease v3.0. This array contains a total of 730 059 markers and was scanned on an
iScan platform (Illumina, Inc.). Clustering and genotype calling were performed using
Genome Studio v2.0.4 (Illumina, Inc.).
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