highly significantp = 6.58×10 −11
Confirmatory genotyping in the 2nd stage By genotyping of these associated SNPs using a custom BeadChip (Illumina) in a different sample population of 1,671 individuals from the Yamagata cohort, we successfully confirmed all these associations at highly significant levels ranging from p = 6.58×10 −11 (rs500498) to 1.33×10 −21 (rs8176746) for P-LIP and from 2.96×10 −10 (rs2073824) to 8.34×10 −39 (rs495828) for ACE in 9q32, and also from 1.13×10 −29 (rs4461142) to 5.21×10 −107 (rs4362) for ACE in 17q23.2, as listed in Tables 1 and 2 .