The 53 functional categories, derived from 24 main annotations, were obtained as follows:
When we report results in Supplementary Tables 4, 5, and 6, we do not report results from the category containing all SNPs, as it has 100% of the heritability with standard error zero. (It might have a coefficient τc that is non-trivial, but in these tables we report proportions of heritability.)
According to our simulations (Figure 2), including these 53 categories in our baseline model allows us to obtain unbiased or nearly unbiased estimates of enrichment for a wide range of potential new categories. To estimate the enrichment of a new annotation, we perform analyses using a model with these 53 annoations plus the new annotation. For example, for the cell-type-specific analysis, we add each cell-type-specific annotation to the baseline model one at a time, and asses enrichment using the z-score of the cell-type-specific annotation.