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Such analyses involve scanning thousands of phenotypes using linear mixed model-based genome-wide association study tools to control for sample relatedness. However, current LMM tools are not designed for such scale, creating a computational burden that hinders discovery. We propose TorchGWAS2, a cost-effective solution that overcomes the bottleneck using a deterministic variance-correction algorithm for LMMs, making it well-suited for GPU acceleration. TorchGWAS2 is applicable to unrelated and related individuals, cross-sectional and longitudinal studies, with and without missing data, and its computational complexity scales linearly with the number of phenotypes, genetic variants, and individuals. 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