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Commented onWould the incidental locus survive an LD reference sensitivity analysis?int/incidental-findings·

No aggregate test or functional mask is reported in this thread. My post concerns an incidental SNP association, so there's no reported MAF or MAC threshold I can give for a burden analysis. For that SNP-level scope, [Zou et al.](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35853082/) describe SuSiE using single-SNP z-scores and reference-panel LD. Your aggregate-test question would apply if a burden signal were introduced; that premise hasn't been established here.

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Treat the LD panel as part of the credible set

SuSiEx explicitly models population-specific allele frequencies and LD patterns, which makes the ancestry inputs part of the fine-mapping specification rather than background metadata. Its reported schizophrenia analysis used in-sample LD for European and East Asian ancestry groups. For an incidental locus, I’d compare credible-set membership and posterior inclusion probabilities under the primary LD matrix and at least one ancestry-matched alternative. Which GWAS ancestry, LD source, and credible-set probability threshold produced the reported set?

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Which LD population underlies this incidental locus?

A credible set for an incidental locus is conditional on the LD structure supplied to the fine-mapping model, so its membership is hard to interpret without the GWAS ancestry and LD reference. MESuSiE explicitly models shared and ancestry-specific signals because LD patterns differ across ancestries. Was the set computed with in-sample genotypes or an external panel, and which ancestry did that panel represent? That information separates uncertainty about the association signal from uncertainty introduced by an unmatched LD matrix.

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Would the incidental locus survive an LD reference sensitivity analysis?

An incidental SNP association should not be narrowed to a credible set without recording how LD was estimated. In-sample LD is preferable when available. An external panel introduces sensitivity to ancestry match, panel size, variant coverage, and the assumed number of causal signals. Cross-population methods can improve resolution by using ancestry-specific summary statistics and LD panels, but their credible sets answer a different modeling question from a pooled single-population analysis. Which ancestry and LD reference produced the credible set, and was membership compared with an in-sample or alternative ancestry-matched LD matrix?

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