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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010 Feb 16;19(3):655–665. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0510

Table 2.

The predictive capacity of genetic profiling under different scenarios defined by the number of genes involved, the odds ratio associated with the high risk allele (OR) and the population frequency of the risk allele. The proportion of subjects in the population who have an event is 10%. Subjects with risks exceeding 20% are classified as high risk. R2: R-squared; AUC: area under the ROC curve; TPR: true positive rate; FPR: false positive rate.

(a) risk allele frequency 5%
Number of genes Total at high risk Cases at high risk (TPR) Controls at high risk (FPR) Expected Net Benefit Net reclassification index R2 AUC
OR=1.05 50 0 0 0 0 0 0.001 0.533
150 0 0 0 0 0 0.003 0.550
250 0 0.001 0 0 0.001 0.005 0.568
350 0.002 0.004 0.002 0 0.002 0.007 0.574
OR=1.10 50 0 0.001 0 0 0 0.004 0.560
150 0.009 0.024 0.008 0.001 0.016 0.013 0.602
250 0.030 0.073 0.026 0.002 0.047 0.021 0.629
350 0.054 0.127 0.045 0.003 0.082 0.029 0.648
OR=1.25 50 0.028 0.075 0.023 0.002 0.052 0.026 0.639
150 0.119 0.327 0.097 0.011 0.230 0.075 0.723
250 0.131 0.407 0.100 0.018 0.307 0.116 0.768
350 0.132 0.459 0.096 0.024 0.363 0.157 0.801
OR=1.50 50 0.128 0.371 0.101 0.014 0.271 0.089 0.738
150 0.175 0.612 0.127 0.033 0.485 0.217 0.842
250 0.131 0.603 0.077 0.043 0.526 0.302 0.885
350 0.170 0.736 0.107 0.050 0.629 0.364 0.908
(b) risk allele frequency 10%
Number of genes Total at high risk Cases at high risk (TPR) Controls at high risk (FPR) Expected Net Benefit Net reclassification index R2 AUC
OR=1.05 50 0 0 0 0 0 0.002 0.541
150 0.001 0.002 0.001 0 0.001 0.006 0.568
250 0.006 0.014 0.005 0 0.009 0.010 0.588
350 0.016 0.032 0.014 0 0.018 0.013 0.602
OR=1.10 50 0.005 0.010 0.004 0 0.005 0.008 0.582
150 0.038 0.090 0.032 0.002 0.058 0.024 0.634
250 0.061 0.160 0.050 0.005 0.110 0.039 0.667
350 0.096 0.250 0.078 0.007 0.172 0.054 0.694
OR=1.25 50 0.074 0.195 0.060 0.006 0.136 0.047 0.684
150 0.144 0.454 0.110 0.021 0.344 0.130 0.781
250 0.133 0.503 0.091 0.030 0.411 0.197 0.829
350 0.144 0.590 0.095 0.038 0.496 0.253 0.862
OR=1.50 50 0.125 0.437 0.090 0.024 0.348 0.150 0.796
150 0.144 0.662 0.087 0.047 0.575 0.328 0.897
250 0.166 0.777 0.098 0.056 0.679 0.420 0.929
350 0.144 0.792 0.073 0.063 0.719 0.490 0.948
(c) risk allele frequency 30%
Number of genes Total at high risk Cases at high risk (TPR) Controls at high risk (FPR) Expected Net Benefit Net reclassification index R2 AUC
OR=1.05 50 0 0 0 0 0 0.005 0.563
150 0.015 0.033 0.013 0 0.021 0.014 0.607
250 0.037 0.087 0.031 0.002 0.056 0.024 0.639
350 0.054 0.130 0.046 0.003 0.084 0.032 0.655
OR=1.10 50 0.021 0.048 0.018 0.001 0.030 0.018 0.620
150 0.094 0.247 0.077 0.007 0.170 0.055 0.700
250 0.111 0.329 0.086 0.014 0.244 0.089 0.744
350 0.132 0.417 0.101 0.019 0.316 0.121 0.777
OR=1.25 50 0.116 0.358 0.088 0.016 0.269 0.100 0.756
150 0.142 0.578 0.094 0.037 0.484 0.246 0.862
250 0.152 0.685 0.092 0.048 0.593 0.340 0.904
350 0.151 0.738 0.085 0.055 0.652 0.407 0.926
OR=1.50 50 0.163 0.646 0.108 0.040 0.538 0.268 0.874
150 0.142 0.779 0.071 0.062 0.708 0.480 0.947
250 0.152 0.867 0.073 0.070 0.794 0.576 0.967
350 0.132 0.863 0.051 0.075 0.812 0.631 0.976