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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 14.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Interface. 2009 Jan 1;2(2):161–170. doi: 10.4310/sii.2009.v2.n2.a6

Table 2.

Descriptive information of six GWA data sets

GWA1_100K GWA2_100K GWA3_300K GWA4_300K GWA5_300K GWA6_1.8m
Sample information

Number of samples 500 441 541 183 268 292
Number of cases 354 313 270 92 176 175
Number of controls 146 128 271 91 92 117

SNP information

Number of SNPs 105834 109924 317503 317503 317503 909622
Number of SNPS on sex chromosome 0 0 9173 9173 9173 37380
SNPs with call rate less than 95% 1584 1018 3101 7235 28124 131770
SNPs with minor allele frequency (MAF)
< 0.01
5005 10642 252 30970 45173 39408
SNPs with no polymorphism observed 1810 2150 91 20540 31852 66
SNPs with only heterozygotes observed 0 2 0 0 113 2046
Polymorphic SNPs with no heterozygote
observed
25 94 5 139 358 130957
SNPs with HWE χ2 > 50 in case group 26 205 9126 396 10084 6511
SNPs with HWE χ2 > 50 in control group 330 666 7741 596 2117 4555
SNPs with HWE χ2 > 50 in combined
samples
752 1112 9265 5443 12160 10023

SNP QC Results Summary:

Number of autosomal chromosome Markers 105834 109924 308330 308330 308330 872242
Autosomal SNPs Passing Call Rate/MAF 100610 96260 304342 269795 256811 606999
Threshold
(0.01 ≤ MAF < 0.05 and call rate ≥ 0.99)
or (0.05 ≤ MAF < 0.10 and call rate 0.97)
or (0.10 ≤ MAF and call rate ≥ 0.95)
Pass above, no polymorphism observed 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pass above, only heterozygotes observed 0 2 0 0 0 6
Pass above, no heterozygote observed 0 0 0 2 100 0
Pass above, fail HWE test (χ2 > 50 in case
group or χ2 > 50 in control group)
76 191 8 28 3443 1303
Number of usable SNPs 100534 96067 304334 269765 253268 605690