Figure S1. Manhattan and QQ plots for AD-AUDIT GWAS Figure S2. Regional association plot showing signal around 4q34.1 for AD-AUDIT GWAS Figure S3. Regional association plot showing signal around 6q25.1 for AD-AUDIT GWAS Figure S4. Regional association plot showing signal around 7p14.1 for AD-AUDIT GWAS Supplementary Table 1. Overview of previously published GWASs for Alcohol dependence First author/ Date/Journal/Title Treutlein, July 2009, Arch Gen Psychiatry, Genome-wide association study of alcohol dependence Bierut, March 2010, PNAS, A genome-wide association study of alcohol dependence Edenberg, May 2010, Alcohol Clin Exp Res Genome-wide association study of alcohol dependence implicates a region in chromosome 11 Wang, March 2011, J Neural Transm, Family-based association analysis of alcohol dependence in the COGA sample and replication in the Australian twinfamily Kendler, May 2011, Alcohol Clin Exp Res, Genomewide association analysis of symptoms of alcohol dependence in the Original study design/ Population 487 cases 1358 controls German (men) Replication study design/ Population 1024 cases 996 controls German (male) Alcohol dependence diagnosis DSM-IV AD SNP platform/ Imputation reference Illumina 550 Genome-wide significant association SNPs (Pvalue < 5x10-8) rs7590720 (P= 9.72 x 10-9) rs1344694 (P=1.69x 10-8) 1897 cases 1932 controls EAs1 & AAs2 from SAGE3 258 family pedigrees EAs from COGA4 487 cases 1358 controls German men 262 family pedigrees 59 family trios EAs from COGA DSM-IV AD Illumina 1M No SNPs replicated (P < 0.05) in the replication samples DSM-IV AD Illumina 1M 778 Australian nuclear families (1650 AD) from OZALC5 DSM-IV AD 847 cases 552 controls EAs 345 cases 140 controls AAs from COGA 116 Caucasian pedigrees from COGA 2357 EAs 812 AAs from MGS26 Gene (region) Suggestive association SNPs (Pvalue > 5x10-8) Gene (region) 2q35 2q35 rs705648 (P = 1.78 x 10-6) rs1614972 (P = 1.41 x 10-4) rs13362120 (P = 1.85 x 10-5) rs13160562 (P = 7.09 x 10-6) rs1864982 (P = 3.46 x 10-6) rs6902771 (P = 8.3 x 10-6) rs729302 (P = 4.02 x 10-5) rs13273672 (P = 4.75 x 10-4) rs1487814 (P = 3.49 x 10-5) rs7138291 (P = 3.68 x 10-5) rs36563 (P = 4.57 x 10-6) rs11640875 (P = 1.84 x 10-5 ) rs12388359 (P = 3.57 x 10-6) 15 SNPs with P < 10-5 in the discovery stage (see Treutlein et al.) PECR (2q35) ADH1C (4q23) CAST (5q15) CAST (5q15) PPP2R2B (5q32) ESR1 (6q25.1) 7q32.1 GATA4 (8p23.1) 11p14.3 CCDC41 (12q22) 14q24.2 CDH13 (16q23.3) Xp22.2 rs2583442 (P = 1.2 x 10-4) SLC22A18, PHLDA2 (11p15.5) NAP1L4, SNORA54 (11p15.5) CARS (11p15.5) OSBPL5 (11p15.5) -5 rs3814964 (P = 7.4 x 10 ) rs7481584 (P = 9.5 x 10-5) rs4758533 (P = 4.8 x 10-5) Symptoms of AD (factor analysis) COGA Affymetrix 10k Australian Illumina 370k Affymetrix 6.0 Australian rs7119734 (P= 3.75 x 10-8) rs2298767 (P= 6.34 x 10-9 ) rs10892169 (P= 5.3 x 10-9) rs3851576 (P= 3.62 x 10-8) No SNPs reached gws threshold DSCAML1 (11q23) COGA rs1986644 (P= 8.51 x 10-6) rs532342 (P= 1.07 x 10-5) rs1367311 (P= 2.31 x 10-6) rs979606 (P= 4.14 x10-4) Australian rs637547 (P= 5.11 x 10-7) 24 SNPs with suggestive association (see Kendler et al.) EDNRB (13q22) USH2A (1q41) TIPARP (3q25.31) MAOA (Xp11.3) NKAIN2 (6q21) molecular genetics of schizophrenia (MGS2) control sample Heath, September 2011, Biol Psychiatry, A quantitative-trait genome-wide association study of alcoholism risk in the community : findings and implications Zuo, November 2011, PLoS one, A novel, functional and replicable risk gene region for alcohol dependence identified by genomewide association study Frank, January 2012, Addict Biol, Genome-wide significant association between alcohol dependence and a variant in the ADH gene cluster Zuo, January 2012, Neuropsychopharmac ology, Genome-wide association study of alcohol dependence implicates KIAA0040 on chromosome 1q Zuo, May 2013, Drug and alcohol dependence, NKKAIN1-SERINC2 is a functional, replicable and genome-wide 2062 AD cases from OZALC 681 cases 508 controls AAs From SAGE & COGA 1409 cases 1518 controls EAs from COGA & SAGE 6438 Australian family Ss from OZLAC 1333 cases 2168 controls German men Heaviness of Drinking factor score Alcohol dependence factor Illumina 370k No SNPs reached gws threshold DSM-IV AD Illumina 1M One LD block containing 30 SNPS replicable risk SNPs around rs9294269 PHF3-PTP4A1 (6q12) ADH1B-ADH1C (4q23) 5Mb region imputed using 1kG and HapMap3 CEU for Australian Ss DSM-IV AD Illumina 550 rs1789891 (P= 1.27 x 10-8) Meta-analysis SAGE & COGA 1409 cases EAs 1518 controls EAs 681 cases AAs 508 controls AAs From SAGE & COGA DSM-IV AD Illumina 1M No SNPs reached gws threshold 1409 cases EAs 1518 controls EAs from COGA & SAGE 6438 Australian family Ss with 1645 AD cases From OZALC DSM-IV AD SAGE & COGA Illumina 1M OZALC Illumina 370k rs1039630 (P= 4.7 x 10-8) rs4478858 (P= 3.1 x 10-8) rs2275436 (P= 3.8 x 10-8) NKAIN1SERINC2 (1p35) several SNPs with suggestive association (see Heath et al.) TMEM108 (3q21) ANKS1A (6p21.31) rs1344694 (P= 4.59 x 10-6) rs9825310 (P= 7.55 x 10-6) rs7694974 (P= 4.4 x 10-6) rs6818421 (P= 4.61 x10-6) rs1000579 (P= 4.01 x 10-7) rs4770403 (P= 6.43 x 10-6) rs2810114 (P= 4.39 x 10-6) 2q35 3p22.3 4p16 4p16 4p16 13q12 14q24 several SNPs with suggestive association (see Zuo et al.) association with KIAA0040 overlapped in EA and AA KIAA0040 (1q24-q25) significant risk gene region specific for alcohol dependence in subjects of European descent Park, June 2013 Hum Genet, Extended genetic effects of ADH cluster genes on the risk of alcohol dependence : from GWAS to replication 117 cases 279 controls Korean 504 cases 471 controls Korean DSM-IV AD Illumina 660 Wang, November 2013, Molecular Psychiatry, A genome-wide association study of alcohol dependence symptom counts in extended pedigrees identifies C15orf53 118 extended families 684 cases 964 controls from COGA SAGE: 2647 Ss Australia (OZALC): 6166 Ss Quantitative endophenotype: symptom count. Dichotomous phenotype: DSMIV AD Illumina Human OmniExpress Han, December 2013, Am J Hum Genet, Integrating GWASs and human protein interaction networks identifies a gene subnetwork underlying alcohol dependence Gelernter, January 2014, Molecular psychiatry, Genome-wide association study of alcohol dependence: significant findings in African- and EAs including novel risk loci COGA + SAGE 2670 EAs 1453 cases 1217 controls 1150 AAs 708 cases 442 controls OZALC 795 cases 641 controls DSM-IV AD Illumina 1M Illumina 370k Illumina HumanOmini1Quad 2379 EAs 3318 AAs From SAGE 1746 EAs 803 AAs German 1806 cases 1978 controls DSM-IV AD and symptoms counts ordinal trait Illumina 1M Yale Penn 1641 cases 1367 controls Imputation 1kG rs1229984 (P=2.63 x 10-21) rs1442492 (P=2.01 x 10-16) rs284787 (P=1.75 x 10-15) rs284784 (P= 2.43 x 10-15) rs975833 (P= 1.12 x 10-14) rs2075633 (P= 6.67 x 10-14) rs284793 (P= 2.99 x 10-12) rs729147 (P=3.84 x10-11) rs894369 (P=3.84 x10-11) rs994771 (P=4.76 x 10-11) rs2851300 (P=9.88 x10-10) rs4147531 (P=1.45x10-9) rs4147532 (P=1.6 x10-9) rs12912251 (P= 4.5 x 10-8, inflation corrected P= 9.4 x 10-7, nominal association in the replication sample SAGE) ADH1B (4q22) ADH7 (4q23) ADH7 (4q23) ADH1A (4q23) ADH1B (4q23) ADH1B (4q23) 4q22-q23 4q22-q23 ADH7 (4q23) ADH1A (4q23) ADH1A (4q23) ADH1A (4q23) ADH1A (4q23) C15orf53 (15q14) several SNPs with suggestive association (see Park et al.) several SNPs with suggestive association (see Wang et al.) rs10914375 (P= 1.9 x 10-7) rs7182484 (P=3.5 x10-7) rs1229984 (P=1.81x10-30) rs2066702 (P=1.5x10-13) rs28542574(P=3.62 x10-11) rs17028615(P=2.88 x10-8) rs10031423(P=2.01x10-8) rs58521602 (P=3.35x10-8) rs1437396 (P=1.17x10-10) ADH1B (4q23) ADH1B (4q23) LOC100507053 LOC100507053 PDLIM5 (4q22) METAP (4q23) MTIF2-CCDC88A (2p16.1) rs1493464 (P=8.59x10-9) 5p15.33 several SNPs with suggestive association (see Gelernter et al.) SERINC2 (1p35.1) 15q14 rs1856202 (P=5.99x10-11) rs59514816 (P=2.89x10-8) Wetherill, February 2014, Alcohol Clin exp Res, Family-based association analysis of alcohol dependence criteria and severity 1 118 extended EAs families from COGA 2647 Ss EAs from SAGE European-Americans ancestry African-Americans ancestry 3 The Study of Addiction: Genetics and Environment 4 The Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism 5 The Australian twin-family study of alcohol use disorder 6 The Molecular Genetics of Schizophrenia 2 2 Latent class analysis derived from DSM-IV AD Illumina Human OmniExpress Illumina 1M 9p13.3 DPP9 (19p13.3) rs11035102 (P=7.3 x 10-8) rs17484734 (P=4.1 x 10-8) absence of replication P > 0.05 (see Wetherill et al.) OR51L1 (11p15.4) NALCN (13q32.3)