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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 5.
Published in final edited form as: Hum Hered. 2006 Nov 15;62(4):196–212. doi: 10.1159/000096995

Table 1.

Penetrance tables for two disease loci under epistatic models

a Epistatic model I

Genotype at locus A Genotype at locus B
Marginal effect
b/b (1/4) b/B (1/2) BB (1/4)
a/a (1/4) 0 0 1 0.25
a/A (1/2) 0 1 0 0.5
AA (1/4) 1 0 0 0.25
Marginal effect 0.25 0.5 0.25

b Epistatic model II

a/a (1/4) 0 0 1 0.25
a/A (1/2) 0 0.5 0 0.25
AA (1/4) 1 0 0 0.25
Marginal effect 0.25 0.25 0.25