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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 VII.

Probability of a real gene given no-change in significance of an associated SNP after 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
One SNP immediately under the peak P(H1)=0.667
GRRhom GRRhet P(H1|i,s) P(H1|s) PC (%) P(H1|I,s) P(H1|s) PC (%) P(H1|i,s) P(H1|s) PC (%)
1.5 1.5 0.00784 0.01379 −43 0.108 0.177 −39 0.905 0.944 −4.1
1.5 1.0 0.00182 0.00198 −8 0.027 0.030 −8 0.686 0.704 −2.6
1.5 1.25 0.00487 0.00699 −30 0.07 0.098 −28 0.855 0.894 −4.4
2.0 2.0 0.00851 0.01959 −57 0.117 0.235 −50 0.912 0.96 −5.0
2.0 1.0 0.00249 0.00310 −20 0.037 0.046 −19 0.75 0.789 −4.9
2.0 1.5 0.00881 0.01706 −48 0.12 0.211 −43 0.914 0.954 −4.2
3.0 3.0 0.00895 0.02039 −56 0.122 0.243 −50 0.916 0.962 −4.8
3.0 1.0 0.00423 0.00574 −26 0.061 0.082 −25 0.836 0.874 −4.3
3.0 2.0 0.00939 0.01994 −53 0.127 0.238 −47 0.919 0.961 −4.3

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).