highly significantp ≤ 7.82 × 10 –7
Out of these 22 variant sets, 12 were in genes implicated in Mendelian disorders affecting red blood cells (for example EPB42 and TFR2 ; see Supplementary Table 15 ) and an additional five had highly significant associations with red blood cell traits in our data (p ≤ 7.82 × 10 –7 ; Supplementary Table 16 ).