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Table 6 Proportions of phenotypic variance explained by the DNAm risk scores employed

From: Epigenetic prediction of complex traits and mortality in a cohort of individuals with oropharyngeal cancer

Methylation score

Variance explained in phenotype

Smoking

 Trejo Bayesian (59 CpG sites)

48.7%

AHRR (cg05575921)

47.0%

 McCartney LASSO (233 CpG sites)

43.5%

 Joehanes (Bonferroni) (2623 CpG sites)

40.5%

 Joehanes (FDR) (18,670 CpG sites)

33.5%

 Zhang (4 CpG sites)

5.2%

Alcohol

 Liu model 4 (144 CpG sites)

16.5%

 Liu model 3 (78 CpG sites)

15.8%

 Liu model 1 (5 CpG sites)

13.9%

 Liu model 2 (23 CpG sites)

10.3%

 McCartney LASSO (450 CpG sites)

10.0%

BMI

 Trejo Bayesian (144 CpG sites)

24.5%

 McCartney LASSO (1109 CpG sites)

22.2%

Educational attainment

 McCartney LASSO (373 CpG sites)

0.4%