Title : Across - cohort QC analyses of genome - wide association study summary statistics from complex traits

7 Affiliations: 8 1 Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 9 2 School of Environmental and Rural Science, The University of New England, Armidale, New South 10 Walsh, Australia 11 3 SPLUS Game, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China 12 4 Department of Genetic Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of 13 Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany 14 5 Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s 15 Hospital, Cambridge, UK 16 6 Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 17 7 Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and 18 Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 19 8 Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK 20 9 Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 21 Michigan, USA 22 10 Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland 23 11 Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), 24 Lausanne, Switzerland 25 12 Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland 26 13 The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 27 New York, New York, USA 28 14 The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New 29 York, New York, USA 30 15 The Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 31 New York, New York, USA 32 16 Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 33 17 Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, 34 Massachusetts, USA 35 18 Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, 36 USA 37 19 Division of Endocrinology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 38 20 A full list of members is available in the Supplementary Note 39 21 The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translation Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, 40 Australia 41