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. 2000 Mar 29;66(4):1341–1350. doi: 10.1086/302852

Table 4.

Power (%) of NF and STDT Tests of Size α=.001 to Detect Association between Disease and a Diallelic Polymorphism, with the Use of Genotypes for 100 Sib Pairs

Power for (%)
True Modela
100 Discordant Sib Pairs
80 Discordant Sib Pairs and 20 Affected Sib Pairs
Frequency of B1 β c1 Test Statistic c1=1 c1=1/2 c1=0 c1=1 c1=1/2 c1=0
.2 .25 1 NF, Ψ=1 81 63 1 78 60 20
NF, Ψ=K/(1-K)b 87 69 1 84 60 17
STDT 81 68 0 61 40 0
.2 .5 1/2 NF, Ψ=1 84 90 22 81 85 20
NF, Ψ=K/(1-K) 90 92 22 82 83 17
STDT 82 87 5 61 71 0
.4 .3 0 NF, Ψ=1 2 70 93 1 70 91
NF, Ψ=K/(1-K) 1 75 95 1 71 93
STDT 0 53 81 0 29 62
.1 .3 1 NF, Ψ=1 72 66 1 81 71 1
NF, Ψ=K/(1-K) 77 69 2 83 67 1
STDT 72 65 0 69 60 0
.1 .3 1/2 NF, Ψ=1 83 86 9 86 88 13
NF, Ψ=K/(1-K) 84 83 9 86 86 11
STDT 81 81 0 68 70 0
.3 .3 0 NF, Ψ=1 1 39 79 0 47 85
NF, Ψ=K/(1-K) 1 45 83 1 49 84
STDT 1 20 58 0 15 44
.05 .35 1 NF, Ψ=1 72 67 0 78 68 1
NF, Ψ=K/(1-K) 66 61 1 71 60 2
STDT 63 61 0 38 32 0
.05 .8 1/2 NF, Ψ=1 86 88 5 77 78 7
NF, Ψ=K/(1-K) 80 79 7 69 68 5
STDT 77 76 0 44 50 0
.2 .4 0 NF, Ψ=1 0 26 61 0 34 81
NF, Ψ=K/(1-K) 0 18 67 0 34 83
STDT 0 4 24 0 11 31
a

P(y=1∣g=i)=0.1+ciβ, where y is an indicator for disease, g = number of B1 alleles in genotype, and c0=0, c1=1.

b

K is the population prevalence of the disease.