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In particular, we take account of the genome-wide dependence among the high-dimensional GWAS summary statistics, along with the block-diagonal dependence pattern in estimated LD scores. Our analysis uncovers several key factors of both the original GWAS and reference panel datasets that determine the performance of LDSC. We show that it is relatively feasible for LDSC-based estimators to achieve asymptotic normality when applied to genome-wide genetic variants (e.g., in genetic variance and covariance estimation), whereas it becomes considerably challenging when we focus on a much smaller subset of genetic variants (e.g., in partitioned heritability analysis). Moreover, by modeling the disparities in LD patterns across different populations, we show that LDSC can be expanded to conduct cross-ancestry analyses using data from genetically distinct global populations. 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