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. 2013 Jul;194(3):769–779. doi: 10.1534/genetics.113.150169

Table 3. Power of different methods in a disease model in which 20% of causal variants are protective.

Error rate Coverage per person C-alpha Freq-weight VT RWAS LRT_G VST LRT
0 4 0.054 0.417 0.653 0.471 0.646 0.456 0.956
10 0.069 0.46 0.712 0.472 0.689 0.506 0.987
20 0.07 0.473 0.713 0.478 0.699 0.515 0.99
0.01 4 0.053 0.14 0.164 0.17 0.191 0.222 0.685
10 0.066 0.304 0.468 0.376 0.495 0.425 0.955
20 0.06 0.458 0.673 0.465 0.67 0.491 0.976

PAR was 0.02 with ci = 0.1 Tested methods were C-alpha (Neale et al. 2011), Freq-weight similar to the Madsen–Browning method (Madsen and Browning 2009), variable threshold (VT) (Price et al. 2010), RWAS (Sul et al. 2011b), LRT_G (Sul et al. 2011a), and our proposed methods (VST and LRT).