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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Genet Epidemiol. 2013 Dec 30;38(2):104–113. doi: 10.1002/gepi.21783

Table III.

Empirical false positive rates across simulation replicates for gene-wise testing at Bonferroni corrected α = 0.05 (0.05/597 ≈ 8.38e-05) for all simulation scenarios and methods.

Scenario Methods
EB-SGL EB-SGL (no sing) GB-L GB-L (no sing) SKAT SKAT-O WSS C-alpha CAST

Causal Variant % OR model Causal variants
40 Fixed Random 5.92e-04 6.40e-04 3.00e-04 3.44e-04 5.85e-05 6.22e-05 1.06e-04 5.69e-03 4.02e-05
Exon 6.29e-04 7.64e-04 3.07e-04 2.89e-04 2.92e-05 6.94e-05 1.39e-04 5.78e-03 5.11e-05
Var. Random 4.79e-04 7.17e-04 2.63e-04 1.83e-04 2.55e-05 4.75e-05 1.06e-04 5.48e-03 2.92e-05
Exon 7.50e-04 5.78e-04 1.79e-04 2.05e-04 6.21e-05 6.94e-05 1.57e-04 5.70e-03 6.58e-05

20 Fixed Random 6.69e-04 5.78e-04 2.82e-04 2.27e-04 6.94e-05 7.31e-05 2.05e-04 5.86e-03 8.41e-05
Exon 5.81e-04 5.78e-04 3.55e-04 2.52e-04 6.94e-05 7.67e-05 1.54e-04 5.94e-03 4.75e-05
Var. Random 7.09e-04 5.74e-04 3.25e-04 3.22e-04 4.39e-05 8.04e-05 1.90e-04 6.00e-03 5.12e-05
Exon 8.00e-04 6.00e-04 4.13e-04 3.95e-04 5.85e-05 9.51e-05 1.83e-04 5.98e-03 6.94e-05