Association results for the BP cases and control samples.

Analyses are presented for both the allelic regression and the genotypic regression for which the genotypes were recoded under an additive genotypic model; age, sex and country/study were used as covariates. The German sample consists of 682 cases and 1300 controls; the replication sample consists of 1814 cases and 2407 controls. The 16 markers that were typed or extracted in the 2 samples are presented (2496 cases and 3707 controls); see Tables S4 and S5 for results from all markers in each sample. *indicates significant P-values (<0.05).