Fig. 2
Map of 309 validated GWAS non-coding variants. The Circos plot displays the 309 experimentally validated variants studied within the 286 included articles. The outer most layer (i) shows the validated variants’ 252 target genes, (ii) the chromosomal map, (iii) the location of validated variants marked by their rsIDs, (iv) using higher order ontology mapping, we display inner links between variants associated with diseases in the same category. Disease systems that contain ten or more validated variants are displayed while those contain less than ten validated variants are grouped in “Others” category, and (v) the manually annotated validated variant class. Additional File 3 contains all variant details and annotations