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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Genet Epidemiol. 2010 Jan;34(1):100–105. doi: 10.1002/gepi.20430

Table 1.

Derived significance thresholds for the Illumina 1M data.

Chromo-
some
Number
of SNPs
Permutation simpleM Keff Bonferroni




Meff αp Meff αp w=20 αp αp
1 63560 30881 1.66E-06 31898 1.61E-06 41438 1.24E-06 7.87E-07
2 64367 31760 1.62E-06 33386 1.54E-06 43538 1.18E-06 7.77E-07
3 53622 26328 1.95E-06 27675 1.85E-06 36009 1.42E-06 9.32E-07
4 47096 24292 2.11E-06 24474 2.10E-06 31651 1.62E-06 1.06E-06
5 48758 24187 2.12E-06 25229 2.03E-06 32699 1.57E-06 1.03E-06
6 52870 25667 2.00E-06 26165 1.96E-06 34945 1.47E-06 9.46E-07
7 43084 23040 2.23E-06 23123 2.22E-06 29607 1.73E-06 1.16E-06
8 41932 23254 2.21E-06 22314 2.30E-06 28809 1.78E-06 1.19E-06
9 35591 20078 2.55E-06 20061 2.56E-06 25505 2.01E-06 1.40E-06
10 40195 21186 2.42E-06 21277 2.41E-06 27575 1.86E-06 1.24E-06
11 39420 21101 2.43E-06 20359 2.52E-06 26188 1.96E-06 1.27E-06
12 38787 20875 2.46E-06 21318 2.41E-06 26644 1.93E-06 1.29E-06
13 28656 14936 3.43E-06 15087 3.40E-06 19624 2.61E-06 1.74E-06
14 26026 14414 3.56E-06 13829 3.71E-06 17749 2.89E-06 1.92E-06
15 23896 12277 4.18E-06 13312 3.85E-06 16477 3.11E-06 2.09E-06
16 24517 14346 3.58E-06 14626 3.51E-06 17627 2.91E-06 2.04E-06
17 23054 11558 4.44E-06 12578 4.08E-06 15360 3.34E-06 2.17E-06
18 22885 11629 4.41E-06 12583 4.08E-06 15935 3.22E-06 2.18E-06
19 16918 9152 5.60E-06 9646 5.32E-06 11389 4.50E-06 2.96E-06
20 19995 10177 5.04E-06 11169 4.59E-06 13971 3.67E-06 2.50E-06
21 11012 6150 8.34E-06 6247 8.21E-06 7747 6.62E-06 4.54E-06
22 12388 6708 7.65E-06 7004 7.32E-06 8537 6.01E-06 4.04E-06

genome-
wide
778629 378368 1.36E-07 413360 1.24E-07 529024 9.70E-08 6.42E-08

The permutation thresholds were calculated using 10,000 random shuffles.

The experiment-wise error rates for each chromosome and the genome-wide adjustment was set at αe = 0.05.

αp: point-wise error rate.

Meff: the effective number of independent tests.

w=20: window size is set equal to 20.