SNP genotype data were acquired on the Illumina Human660W-Quadv1_A (eMERGE), Illumina HumanOmni1-Quad (VESPA), HumanOmni5-Quad (VESPA) and Affymetrix 6.0 SNP array (ARIC) platforms. Quality control (QC) steps for the EHR data sets were performed per the published protocols established by the eMERGE Genomics Working Group.23 (link) For imputation, palindromic alleles were aligned to the positive strand using allele frequency information from the 1000 Genomes Project. SNPs were pre-phased using SHAPEIT,24 (link) and data were imputed using IMPUTE225 (link) and the 10/2014 release of the 1000 Genomes cosmopolitan reference haplotypes. QC for the ARIC data set followed the guidelines accompanying the dbGaP release including removing SNPs with chromosomal anomalies and with >5 discordant calls in replicate samples, and using a predefined subset of unrelated subjects. QC analyses used PLINK v1.07.26 (link) After filtering for a sample missingness rate<2.0%, a SNP missingness rate<2.0% and a SNP deviation from Hardy-Weinberg<0.001, there were 627,580 SNPs with MAF>1.0%. The merged intersection of the ARIC and imputed EHR data sets contained 488,525 SNPs with MAF>1.0%.