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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 14.
Published in final edited form as: Genet Epidemiol. 2008 Apr;32(3):204–214. doi: 10.1002/gepi.20295

TABLE V.

Probability of a real gene given an increase in significance (at least one order of magnitude) of an associated single SNP following fine mapping, for a disease allele frequency of 0.2

Genetic model (H1)
Ten SNPs somewhere in the genome P(H1)=0.00166
One SNP somewhere under a 20Mb wide linkage peak P(H1)=0.025
GRRhom GRRhet P(H1|i,s) P(H1|s) PC (%) P(H1|i,s) P(H1|s) PC (%)
1.5 1.5 0.14744 0.01379 969 0.727 0.177 310
1.5 1.0 0.00234 0.00198 18 0.035 0.030 18
1.5 1.25 0.03341 0.00699 378 0.347 0.098 255
2.0 2.0 0.41587 0.01959 2023 0.916 0.235 290
2.0 1.0 0.00730 0.00310 135 0.102 0.046 122
2.0 1.5 0.24350 0.01706 1327 0.832 0.211 295
3.0 3.0 0.48161 0.02039 2262 0.935 0.243 285
3.0 1.0 0.02359 0.00574 311 0.271 0.082 232
3.0 2.0 0.42342 0.01994 2023 0.919 0.238 285

P(H1) – prior probability of a genetic effect.

P(H1|i, s) – posterior probability of a genetic effect given a significant primary analysis signal increasing in significance following fine-mapping.

P(H1|s) – posterior probability of a genetic effect given a significant primary analysis signal.

PC (%) – proportional change in posterior probability of a genetic effect, given by 100[P(H1|i, s)–P(H1|s)]/P(H1|s).