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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 25.
Published in final edited form as: Genet Epidemiol. 2011 Feb 9;35(3):182–189. doi: 10.1002/gepi.20566

Table 2.

Type I error rate of the family-based association tests

model origa σb = 10 σ = 15
probc classd prob class
p = 0.05
additive 0.049 0.045 0.041 0.044 0.050
dom 0.049 0.042 0.051 0.042 0.048
rec 0.039 0.039 0.040 0.038 0.042
p = 0.01
additive 0.009 0.007 0.007 0.004 0.005
dom 0.010 0.004 0.004 0.008 0.009
rec 0.008 0.004 0.004 0.004 0.005
a

original phenotype where all symptomatic subjects are affected.

b

within-class standard deviation

c

posterior probability of class membership used as a quantitative trait in affected subjects

d

most probable class used as phenotype