Table iv.

Empirical Power in the presence of epistasis. The column labeled “LD” gives the R² between the two causal SNPs. The results show that IBS kernel is useful for detecting epistasis.

Causal SNP 1	Causal SNP 2	LD	IBS	weighted IBS	Linear	min test
rs4377998 (untyped)	rs6586684 (untyped)	0.392	0.538	0.532	0.122	0.102
rs4377998 (untyped)	rs10112857 (typed)	0.539	0.588	0.588	0.168	0.18
rs1049874 (typed)	rs6586684 (untyped)	0.563	0.574	0.548	0.122	0.11
rs1049874 (typed)	rs10112857 (typed)	0.468	0.618	0.596	0.186	0.192
rs12541181 (untyped)	rs2427746 (untyped)	0.422	0.926	0.914	0.688	0.766
rs12541181 (untyped)	rs12155668 (typed)	0.461	0.94	0.918	0.668	0.738
rs7830490 (typed)	rs2427746 (untyped)	0.409	0.928	0.916	0.704	0.764
rs7830490 (typed)	rs12155668 (typed)	0.447	0.952	0.938	0.678	0.74