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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 IV.

Empirical power 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. The methods with the highest power per scenario are highlighted in bold (C-alpha was ignored due to its high Type I error rate).

Simulation 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 0.002 0.088 0.102 0.231 0.635 0.661 0.533 0.744 0.394
Exon 0.012 0.081 0.065 0.135 0.349 0.369 0.390 0.440 0.008
MAF Random 0.080 0.297 0.538 0.722 0.754 0.903 0.802 0.787 0.767
Exon 0.198 0.339 0.516 0.676 0.398 0.614 0.561 0.540 0.228

20 Fixed Random 0.001 0.007 0.000 0.004 0.184 0.177 0.200 0.205 0.000
Exon 0.001 0.023 0.006 0.029 0.383 0.378 0.370 0.416 0.004
MAF Random 0.004 0.008 0.115 0.259 0.129 0.130 0.186 0.206 0.004
Exon 0.040 0.137 0.142 0.400 0.432 0.500 0.401 0.491 0.113