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. 2008 Jul 16;3(7):e2693. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002693

Table 1. Comparison of allele frequency of three SNPs from a pool of 192 controls using manual and software analysis.

Gene name: CYP2E1, SNP ID: rs 915906
No.of Samples Individual Samples Pooled Samples (Software) Pooled Samples (Manual) % Error (Software) % Error (Manual)
C% T% C% T% C% T%
1-96 18.75 81.25 18.8 81.2 18.2 81.8 0.05(±4.42) 0.55(±0.063)
1-192 16.4 83.6 14.2 85.8 15.62 84.38 2.2(±4.72) 0.78(±0.042)
Gene name: DrD2, SNP ID: rs 6279
No.of Samples Individual Samples Pooled Samples (Software) Pooled Samples (Manual) % of Error (Software) % of Error (Manual)
C% G% C% G% C% G%
1-96 28.64 71.35 30.5 69.5 29.55 70.45 1.86(±0.49) 0.9(±0.065)
1-192 31.9 68.1 36.1 63.9 33.58 66.42 4.2(±1.42) 1.68(±0.034)
Gene name: COMT, SNP ID: rs933271
No.of Samples Individual Samples Pooled Samples (Software) Pooled Samples (Manual) % of Error (Software) % of Error (Manual)
C% T% C% T% C% T%
1-96 26.04 73.96 27.98 72.02 27.59 72.41 1.94(±6.59) 1.55(±0.18)
1-192 26.04 73.96 29.25 70.75 26.59 73.4 3.21(±4.40) 0.55(±0.12)

Manual and software analysis comparison with the reference (true values) for pools of 96 and 192 for three SNP from genes CYP2E1, DrD2 and COMT. The table demonstrates significant lower error rates by manual evaluation.