Seven identified SNPs compared to previously published loci.

aThe Effect allele refers to a positive effect direction in the discovery stage for the trait and gender, the SNP was selected for; bGene near this SNP which was published previously from sex-combined analyses. The seven SNPs with sex difference are considered to depict a known locus, if the index SNP is close to a published top SNP (<1 cM). These include four of the previously reported sexually dimorphic WHR loci (Heid et al., Nat Genet 2010).