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. 2014 Jul 10;10(7):e1004462. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004462

Table 2. Performance of variant calling at germline SNPs.

# of Positions TPR FPR FNR
Homozygous Sites Heterozygous Sites
UPN461282 Average: Unsorted Cells 17 1.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Average: Single Cells 9 0.90 0.00 0.00 0.21
Average: Two Cells 8 0.88 0.00 0.00 0.25
UPN182896 Average: Unsorted Cells 329 0.99 0.00 0.00 0.00
Average: Single Cells 189 0.93 0.01 0.00 0.13
Average: Two Cells 181 0.94 0.01 0.00 0.09
UPN288033 Average: Unsorted Cells 327 1.00 0.01 0.00 0.00
Average: Single Cells 195 0.92 0.02 0.00 0.13
Average: Two Cells 204 0.98 0.03 0.00 0.04

True Positive (TP): ≥1 non-reference allele called by Affymetrix array, ≥1 non-reference allele called by sequencing.

True Negative (TN): 0 non-reference alleles called by Affymetrix array, 0 non-reference alleles called by sequencing.

False Positive (FP): 0 non-reference alleles called by Affymetrix array, ≥1 non-reference allele called by sequencing.

False Negative (FN): ≥1 non-reference allele called by Affymetrix array, ≥0 non-reference alleles called by sequencing.

True Positive Rate (TPR): TP/(TP+FN) = sensitivity = power.

False Positive Rate (FPR): FP/(FP+TN) = 1-specificity.

False Negative Rate (FNR): FN/(TP+FN) = 1 - sensitivity = type II error.