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. 2009 May 29;170(3):393–400. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwp118

Table 2.

Type I Error Rates for Tests of Interactiona

% of Families With a Parent's Genotype Missing Population Allele and Exposure Frequencies
Allele frequency in population 1: 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5
Allele frequency in population 2: 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5
Frequency with E = 0 in population 1: 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5
Frequency with E = 0 in population 2: 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5
0 QPL with 2 df 0.098 0.054 0.051 0.059 0.061
QTDT with 2 df 0.05 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.05
Case-control with 2 df 1 1 0.93 0.151 0.057
Case-only with 2 df 1 0.999 0.626 0.101 0.061
QPL with 1 df 0.05 0.047 0.054 0.056 0.054
FBAT-I (1 df) 0.045 0.044 0.049 0.054 0.054
QTDT with 1 df 0.04 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.05
Case-control with 1 df 1 1 0.96 0.192 0.053
25 QPL with 2 df 0.108 0.059 0.052 0.061 0.063
QPL with 1 df 0.053 0.041 0.057 0.056 0.063

Abbreviations: FBAT-I, family-based association test with interaction; QPL, quantitative polytomous logistic; QTDT, quantitative transmission disequilibrium test.

a

Results are based on 1,000 simulations for each scenario of studies in a population subject to population stratification but with no interaction (rightmost column has no population stratification).