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metal

Overview

Field Value
Format key metal
Spec file formats/metal.json
Cite name METAL
Version 20220726
Source https://genome.sph.umich.edu/wiki/METAL_Documentation
Citation Willer, C. J., Li, Y., & Abecasis, G. R. (2010). METAL: fast and efficient meta-analysis of genomewide association scans. Bioinformatics, 26(17), 2190-2191.
## Column mapping
Raw header Canonical
Allele1 EA
Allele2 NEA
Direction DIRECTION
Effect BETA
Freq1 EAF
MarkerName SNPID
P-value P
StdErr SE
## Coverage

6/9 tier groups satisfied.

Tier Status Matched Missing
Variant ID yes SNPID rsID
Genomic location no CHR, POS
Effect / other allele yes EA, NEA
Effect size yes BETA OR, HR, Z
Uncertainty yes SE
P-value yes P MLOG10P
Sample size no N, N_CASE
Allele frequency yes EAF MAF, NEAF
Imputation / QC no INFO
## See also