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 </p>
 
 <p>
 The specific phenotypes studied by the COVID-19 HGI are those that benefit from maximal sample 
 size: primary analysis on disease severity. Two meta-analyses are represented in this track:
 </p>
 
 <ul>
 <li><b>ANA_C2_V2</b>: covid vs. population (6696 cases from 18 studies)</li>
 <li><b>ANA_B2_V2</b>: hospitalized covid vs. population (3199 cases from 8 studies)</li>
 </ul>
 
 <H2>Display Conventions</H2>
 <p>
 Displayed items are colored by <b>GWAS effect</b>:  red for positive, blue for negative. 
-The height of the item reflects the <b>effect size</b> (beta coefficient).
-The color saturation indicates <b>statistical significance</b>: p-values smaller than .05
+The height of the item reflects the <b>effect size</b>. The effect size, defined as the 
+contribution of a SNP to the genetic variance of the trait, was measured as beta coefficient 
+(beta). The higher the absolute value of the beta coefficient, the stronger the effect.
+The color saturation indicates <b>statistical significance</b>: p-values smaller than 1e-5
 are brightly colored (bright red
 <span style='background-color: #ff0000;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>
 , bright blue
 <span style='background-color: #0000ff;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>
 ),
-those with less significance (p >= .05) are paler (light red
+those with less significance (p >= 1e-5) are paler (light red
 <span style='background-color: #ffa0a0;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>
 , light blue
 <span style='background-color: #a0a0ff;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>
-). For better visualization of the data, only SNPs with p-values smaller than .03 are 
+). For better visualization of the data, only SNPs with p-values smaller than 1e-3 are 
 displayed by default. 
 </p>
 
 <p>
 Each track has separate display controls and data can be filtered according to the
 <b>number of studies</b>, <b>minimum -log10 p-value</b>, and the
 <b>effect size (beta coefficient)</b>, using the track <b>Configure</b> options.
 </p>
 
 <p>
 <b>Mouseover</b> on items shows the rs ID (or chrom:pos if none assigned), both the non-effect 
 and effect alleles, the effect size (beta coefficient), the p-value, and the number of 
 studies.
 Additional information on each variant can be found on the details page by clicking on the item.
 </p>  
 
 <H2>Methods</H2>
 <p>
-Data were generated from genome-wide SNP array and whole exome and genome sequencing: leveraging 
-the impact of both common and rare variants. The statistical analysis performed takes into account 
-differences between sex, ancestry, and date of sample collection. More information about the 
+COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative (HGI) GWAS meta-analysis round 3 (July 2020) results were used 
+in this study. Each participating study partner submitted GWAS summary statistics for up to four 
+of the <a target=_blank href="https://www.covid19hg.org/results/">COVID-19 phenotype definitions</a>.
+</p>
+<p>
+Data were generated from genome-wide SNP array and whole exome and genome
+sequencing, leveraging the impact of both common and rare variants. The statistical analysis
+performed takes into account differences between sex, ancestry, and date of sample collection. 
+Alleles were harmonized across studies and reported allele frequencies are based on gnomAD 
+version 3.0 reference data. Most study partners used the <b>SAIGE GWAS</b> pipeline in order 
+to generate summary statistics used for the COVID-19 HGI meta-analysis. The summary statistics 
+of individual studies were manually examined for inflation, 
+deflation, and excessive number of false positives. Qualifying summary statistics were filtered for 
+<b>INFO > 0.6</b> and <b>MAF > 0.0001</b> prior to meta-analyzing the entirety of the data. 
+The meta-analysis was done using inverse variance weighting of effects method, accounting for 
+strand differences and allele flips in the individual studies. 
+</p>
+<p>
+The meta-analysis results of variants appearing in at least three studies (analysis C2) or two 
+studies (all other analyses) were made publicly available.
+The meta-analysis software and workflow are available <a target=_blank 
+href="https://github.com/covid19-hg/META_ANALYSIS">here</a>. More information about the 
 prospective studies, processing pipeline, results and data sharing can be found 
 <a target=_blank href="https://www.covid19hg.org/about/">here</a>.
 </p>
 
 
 <H2>Data Access</H2>
 <p>
 The data underlying these tracks and summary statistics results are publicly available in 
 <a target=_blank href="https://www.covid19hg.org/results">COVID19-hg Release 3 (June 2020)</a>.
 The raw data can be explored interactively with the <a target="_blank" href="../cgi-bin/hgTables">
 Table Browser</a>, or the <a target="_blank" href="../cgi-bin/hgIntegrator">Data Integrator</a>. 
 Please refer to
 our <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/soe.ucsc.edu/forum/#!forum/genome"
 target="_blank">mailing list archives</a> for questions, or our <a target="_blank"
 href="../FAQ/FAQdownloads.html#download36">Data Access FAQ</a> for more information.