GIANT consortium data files
We are releasing the summary data from our meta-analyses of Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) in order to enable other researchers to examine particular variants or loci for their evidence of association with anthropometric traits. The files include p-values and direction of effect at over 2 million directly genotyped or imputed single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). To prevent the possibility of identification of individuals from these summary results, we are not releasing allele frequency data from our samples.
This page is being migrated, so during this time some files are being made available at the following site: [1]. This includes summary association results from Ried et al. Nature Communications 2016 (GWAS of body shape) and Yengo et al. 2022 (GWAS of height).
Contents
- 1 2022 GWAS Summary Statistics and Polygenic Score (PGS) Weights
- 2 2018 Exome Array Summary Statistics
- 3 2018 GIANT and UK BioBank Meta-analysis
- 4 2017 Gene x Environment Summary Statistics
- 5 2016 GIANT Body Shape Meta-analysis
- 6 GIANT Consortium 2012-2015 GWAS Summary Statistics
- 6.1 GWAS Age-/Sex-Stratified 2015 BMI and WHR Summary Statistics
- 6.2 GWAS Anthropometric 2015 BMI Summary Statistics
- 6.3 GWAS Anthropometric 2015 Waist Summary Statistics
- 6.4 GWAS Anthropometric 2014 Height Summary Statistics
- 6.5 Variability in BMI and Height Summary Statistics
- 6.6 Sex Stratified Anthropometrics Summary Statistics
- 6.7 Extremes of Anthropometric Traits Summary Statistics
- 7 GIANT Consortium 2010 GWAS Summary Statistics
2022 GWAS Summary Statistics and Polygenic Score (PGS) Weights
Height GWAS Summary Statistics
- Download Yengo.2022.height.GWAS_and_PGS.README TXT
- Download Yengo.2022.height.GWAS.ALL GZIP
- Download Yengo.2022.height.GWAS.AFR GZIP
- Download Yengo.2022.height.GWAS.EAS GZIP
- Download Yengo.2022.height.GWAS.EUR GZIP
- Download Yengo.2022.height.GWAS.HIS GZIP
- Download Yengo.2022.height.GWAS.SAS GZIP
Height PGS (polygenic scores)
- Download Yengo.2022.height.GWAS_and_PGS.README TXT
- Download Yengo.2022.height.PGS.ALL GZIP
- Download Yengo.2022.height.PGS.AFR GZIP
- Download Yengo.2022.height.PGS.EAS GZIP
- Download Yengo.2022.height.PGS.EUR GZIP
- Download Yengo.2022.height.PGS.HIS GZIP
- Download Yengo.2022.height.PGS.SAS GZIP
Height GWAS Summary Statistics without UK Biobank
- Download Yengo.2022.height.GWAS.no_UKB.README TXT
- Download Yengo.2022.height.GWAS.no_UKB.ALL GZIP
- Download Yengo.2022.height.GWAS.no_UKB.AFR GZIP
- Download Yengo.2022.height.GWAS.no_UKB.EAS GZIP
- Download Yengo.2022.height.GWAS.no_UKB.EUR GZIP
- Download Yengo.2022.height.GWAS.no_UKB.HIS GZIP
- Download Yengo.2022.height.GWAS.no_UKB.SAS GZIP
GWAS summary statistics and PGS weights from Yengo et al. 2022 are also available at the following sites: [2] and [3].
If you use these data, please cite: Yengo L, Vedantam S, Marouli E, et al. (2022). A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height. Nature. 2022 Oct;610(7933):704-712. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05275-y Epub 2022 Oct 12. PMID: 36224396; PMCID: PMC9605867.
2018 Exome Array Summary Statistics
WHR Exome Array Summary Statistics
Download WHR Exome Array Data File Description
WHR Data Files:
- Download WHRadjBMI.C.All.Add GZIP
- WHRadjBMI.C.All.Rec
- WHRadjBMI.C.Eur.Add
- WHRadjBMI.C.Eur.Rec
- WHRadjBMI.M.All.Add
- WHRadjBMI.M.All.Rec
- WHRadjBMI.M.Eur.Add
- WHRadjBMI.M.Eur.Rec
- WHRadjBMI.W.All.Add
- WHRadjBMI.W.All.Rec
- WHRadjBMI.W.Eur.Add
- WHRadjBMI.W.Eur.Rec
BMI Exome Array Summary Statistics
BMI Data Files:
- BMI_African_American gzip
- BMI_All_Ancestry gzip
- BMI_Eastern_Asian gzip
- BMI_European gzip
- BMI_Hispanic_American gzip
- BMI_South_Asian gzip
If you use these data, please cite: Turcot V, Lu Y, Highland HM, Schurmann C, Justice AE, Fine RS, Bradfield JP, Esko T, Giri A, Graff M, Guo X, Hendricks AE, et al. (2018). Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity. Nat Genet. 2018 Jan;50(1):26-41. doi: 10.1038/s41588-017-0011-x. Epub 2017 Dec 22. PMID: 29273807
Height Exome Array Summary Statistics
Download Height Exome Array Data File Description
Height Data Files:
- Download Height HA SV GZIP
- Download Height AA SV GZIP
- Download Height EA SV GZIP
- Download Height EAS SV GZIP
- Download Height SA SV GZIP
- Download Height All SV GZIP
2018 GIANT and UK BioBank Meta-analysis
WHR GIANT and UK BioBank Meta-analysis Summary Statistics
WHR UK BioBank Meta Analysis for Public Release:
- Download bmi.giant-ukbb.meta-analysis.males.23May2018.HapMap2_only.txt.gz
- Download bmi.giant-ukbb.meta-analysis.females.23May2018.HapMap2_only.txt.gz
- Download bmi.giant-ukbb.meta-analysis.combined.23May2018.HapMap2_only.txt.gz
- Download whradjbmi.giant-ukbb.meta-analysis.combined.23May2018.HapMap2_only.txt.gz
- Download whradjbmi.giant-ukbb.meta-analysis.females.23May2018.HapMap2_only.txt.gz
- Download whradjbmi.giant-ukbb.meta-analysis.males.23May2018.HapMap2_only.txt.gz
- Download README_summary_statistics_Pulit_et_al_2018.txt
Access link for GWAS data for all ~27M sites: https://zenodo.org/record/1251813#.XCLJ7vZKhE4 DOI (10.5281/zenodo.1251813)
BMI and Height GIANT and UK BioBank Meta-analysis Summary Statistics
Please Note: We discovered that the BMI files for the meta-analysis of UK Biobank and GIANT originally uploaded did not reflect the full sample size and have now been corrected. If you downloaded these files prior to June 25, 2018, please download them again. Our apologies for any inconvenience.
- Download Updated Meta-analysis Locke et al + UKBiobank 2018 GZIP
- Download Meta-analysis Wood et al + UKBiobank 2018 GZIP
- Download Updated Meta-analysis Lock et al + UKBiobank 2018 top 716 BMI SNPs from COJO analysis GZIP
- Download Meta-analysis Wood et al + UKBiobank 2018 top 3290 Height SNPs from COJO analysis GZIP
- Download README Summary Statistics for Yengo et al 2018
If you use these data, please cite: Yengo L, Sidorenko J, Kemper KE, Zheng Z, Wood AR, Weedon MN, Frayling TM, Hirschhorn J, Yang J, Visscher PM, GIANT Consortium. (2018). Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for height and body mass index in ~700,000 individuals of European ancestry. Biorxiv.
2017 Gene x Environment Summary Statistics
Summary Statistics for Models Adjusting for Smoking Status
Download Models Adjusting for Smoking Status Data File Description
BMI:
WCadjBMI:
WHRadjBMI:
Summary Statistics for Smoking Stratified Models
Download Smoking Stratified Models Data File Description
BMI:
WCadjBMI:
WHRadjBMI:
Summary Statistics for Gene x Physical Activity
Download Gene x Physical Activity Data File Description
BMI Data Files:
- BMI Active
- BMI Inactive
- BMI SNPadjPA
WAISTadjBMI Data Files:
- WAISTadjBMI Active
- WAISTadjBMI Inactive
- WAISTadjBMI SNPadjPA
WHRadjBMI Data Files:
- WHRadjBMI Active
- WHRadjBMI Inactive
- WHRadjBMI SNPadjPA
2016 GIANT Body Shape Meta-analysis
Summary association results from Ried et al. Nature Communications 2016 are temporarily aailable here: [4].
GIANT Consortium 2012-2015 GWAS Summary Statistics
Download 2012-2015 GIANT GWAS Summary Statistics Data File Description
GWAS Age-/Sex-Stratified 2015 BMI and WHR Summary Statistics
If you use these data, please cite: Winkler TW*, Justice AE*, Graff M*, Barata L*, Feitosa MF, Chu S, Czajkowski J, Esko T, Fall T, Kilpeläinen TO, Lu Y, Mägi R et al. (2015). The influence of age and sex on genetic associations with adult body size and shape: a large-scale genome-wide interaction study. PLoS Genetics. In press.
GWAS Anthropometric 2015 BMI Summary Statistics
If you use these BMI data, please cite: Locke AE, Kahali B, Berndt SI, Justice AE, Pers TH, Day FR, Powell C, Vedantam S, Buchkovich ML, Yang J, Croteau-Chonka DC, Esko T et al. (2015). Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology. Nature 518, 197-206.
GWAS Anthropometric 2015 Waist Summary Statistics
HIP:
- Download HIP Males EUR GZIP
- Download HIP Males All Ancestries GZIP
- Download HIP Females EUR GZIP
- Download HIP Females All Ancestries GZIP
- Download HIP Combined EUR GZIP
- Download HIP Combined All Ancestries GZIP
HIPadjBMI:
- Download HIPadjBMI Males EUR GZIP
- Download HIPadjBMI Males All Ancestries GZIP
- Download HIPadjBMI Females EUR GZIP
- Download HIPadjBMI Females All Ancestries GZIP
- Download HIPadjBMI Combined EUR GZIP
- Download HIPadjBMI Combined All Ancestries GZIP
WC:
- Download WC Males EUR GZIP
- Download WC Males All Ancestries GZIP
- Download WC Females EUR GZIP
- Download WC Females All Ancestries GZIP
- Download WC Combined EUR GZIP
- Download WC Combined All Ancestries GZIP
WCadjBMI:
- Download WCadjBMI Males EUR GZIP
- Download WCadjBMI Males All Ancestries GZIP
- Download WCadjBMI Females EUR GZIP
- Download WCadjBMI Females All Ancestries GZIP
- Download WCadjBMI Combined EUR GZIP
- Download WCadjBMI Combined All Ancestries GZIP
WHR:
- Download WHR Males EUR GZIP
- Download WHR Males All Ancestries GZIP
- Download WHR Females EUR GZIP
- Download WHR Females All Ancestries GZIP
- Download WHR Combined EUR GZIP
- Download WHR Combined All Ancestries GZIP
WHRadjBMI:
- Download WHRadjBMI Males EUR GZIP
- Download WHRadjBMI Males All Ancestries GZIP
- Download WHRadjBMI Females EUR GZIP
- Download WHRadjBMI Females All Ancestries GZIP
- Download WHRadjBMI Combined EUR GZIP
- Download WHRadjBMI Combined All Ancestries GZIP
If you use these Waist data, please cite: Shungin D, Winkler TW, Croteau-Chonka DC, Ferreira T, Locke AE, Magi R, Strawbridge R, Pers TH, Fischer K, Justice AE, Workalemahu T, Wu JM, et al. (2015). New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution. Nature 518: 187-196.
GWAS Anthropometric 2014 Height Summary Statistics
If you use these Height data, please cite: Wood AR, Esko T, Yang J, Vedantam S, Pers TH, Gustafsson S et al. (2014). Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height. Nature Genetics 11:1173-86.
Variability in BMI and Height Summary Statistics
If you use these Body Mass Index or Height data, please cite: Yang J, Loos RJ, Powell JE, Medland SE, Speliotes EK, Chasman DI, Rose LM, Thorleifsson G, Steinthorsdottir V, Mägi R, et al. (2012). FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index. Nature 490:267-272.
Sex Stratified Anthropometrics Summary Statistics
If you use these data, please cite: Randall JC, Winkler TW, Kutalik Z, Berndt SI, Jackson AU, Monda KL, Kilpeläinen TO, Esko T, Mägi R, Li S, et al. (2013). Sex-stratified genome-wide association studies including 270,000 individuals show sexual dimorphism in genetic loci for anthropometric traits. PLoS Genet 9: e1003500.
Extremes of Anthropometric Traits Summary Statistics
If you use these data, please cite: Berndt SI, Gustafsson S, Mägi R, Ganna A, Wheeler E, Feitosa MF, Justice AE, Monda KL, Croteau-Chonka DC, Day FR, et al. (2013). Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture. Nature Genetics 45:501-512.
GIANT Consortium 2010 GWAS Summary Statistics
Download GIANT Consortium 2010 GWAS Summary Statistics Data File Description
GWAS 2010 BMI Summary Statistics
If you use these Body Mass Index data, please cite: Speliotes, E.K., Willer, C.J., Berndt, S.I., Monda, K.L., Thorleifsson, G., Jackson, A.U., Allen, H.L., Lindgren, C.M., Luan, J., Magi, R., et al. (2010). Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index. Nat Genet 42, 937-948.
GWAS 2010 Height Summary Statistics
If you use these Height data, please cite: Lango Allen, H., Estrada, K., Lettre, G., Berndt, S.I., Weedon, M.N., Rivadeneira, F., Willer, C.J., Jackson, A.U., Vedantam, S., Raychaudhuri, S., et al. (2010). Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height. Nature 467, 832-838.
GWAS 2010 WHRadjBMI Summary Statistics
If you use these waist-hip ratio adjusted for BMI data, please cite: Heid, I.M., Jackson, A.U., Randall, J.C., Winkler, T.W., Qi, L., Steinthorsdottir, V., Thorleifsson, G., Zillikens, M.C., Speliotes, E.K., Magi, R., et al. (2010). Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution. Nat Genet 42, 949-960.