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. 2005 Jun;170(2):881–898. doi: 10.1534/genetics.104.035147

TABLE 2.

Type I error rates (%) of test cases of Table 1 at a 0.05 significance level

Error rates when total no. of offspring is
120
240
480
No. of offspring in each family Test case LRT 1,a LRT 1,a LRT 1,a
1 Null 5.0 4.9 5.1 5.1 5.8 5.8
Familiality 5.4 5.3 5.2 5.2 5.3 5.3
Admixture 3.9 3.8 5.2 5.2 5.3 5.3
2 Null 4.6 4.5 4.8 4.7 4.5 4.5
Familiality 4.2 4.1 3.6 3.6 4.7 4.8
Admixture 5.0 4.8 5.5 5.5 4.9 5.1
Linkage 5.5 5.4 5.0 4.3 5.0 5.1
Composite 5.6 5.8 5.8 5.9 5.6 5.7
4 Null 4.9 5.0 4.3 4.3 3.6 3.6
Familiality 5.2 5.3 4.2 4.3 4.8 4.8
Admixture 5.5 5.6 5.4 5.8 4.2 4.2
Linkage 5.3 5.5 5.4 5.4 4.9 5.0
Composite 5.3 5.5 5.3 5.3 4.1 4.2
8 Null 4.2 4.4 5.0 5.1 4.7 4.7
Familiality 4.7 5.3 5.1 5.5 4.4 4.4
Admixture 3.5 4.4 5.5 6.0 4.4 4.6
Linkage 6.1 6.8 4.3 4.6 4.6 4.8
Composite 5.8 6.7 5.5 5.9 3.7 3.9

The parameters are the same as those of Abecasis et al. (2000a)(Table 2).