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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 VI.

Probability of a real gene given an increase in significance (any order of magnitude) of an associated single SNP following fine-mapping, for a disease allele frequency of 0.2, stratified by r2 between the disease SNP and the primary analysis signal

Genetic model
Ten genes in the genome P(H1)=0.00166
One gene under a 20-Mb linkage peak (H1)=0.025
r2<0.5
r2≥0.5
r2<0.5
r2<0.5
r2≥0.5
r2≥0.8
GRRhom GRRhet P(H1|i,s) PC (%) P(H1|i,s) PC (%) P(H1|i,s) PC (%) P(H1|i,s) PC (%) P(H1|i,s) PC (%) P(H1|i,s) PC (%)
1.5 1.5 0.02410 96 0.02793 92 0.02513 74 0.275 71 0.306 66 0.284 54
1.5 1.0 0.00220 13 0.00413 68 0.00345 48 0.033 13 0.060 65 0.051 46
1.5 1.25 0.00929 42 0.01421 90 0.01367 84 0.126 37 0.181 74 0.176 70
2.0 2.0 0.04742 156 0.04140 107 0.03746 86 0.434 93 0.399 67 0.374 56
2.0 1.0 0.00390 27 0.00603 90 0.00546 71 0.057 25 0.085 83 0.078 66
2.0 1.5 0.03584 130 0.03419 93 0.03100 75 0.364 86 0.353 63 0.330 52
3.0 3.0 0.05505 173 0.04075 99 0.03612 76 0.473 96 0.395 62 0.366 50
3.0 1.0 0.00781 38 0.01056 81 0.01001 72 0.108 34 0.141 70 0.135 63
3.0 2.0 0.05278 169 0.03885 94 0.03382 69 0.462 96 0.383 60 0.350 46

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

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).