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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 8.
Published in final edited form as: Genet Epidemiol. 2014 May 5;38(5):389–401. doi: 10.1002/gepi.21798

Table 1.

Type I error divided by the nominal significance level α for various meta-analysis methods

Phenotype α FE-BS RE-BS FE-VT RE-VT FE-VC RE-VC FE-VC-O RE-VC-O Het-SKAT Het-SKAT-O
Quantitative 10−2 0.99 0.99 0.99 0.99 1.00 0.98 0.99 1.00 0.95 1.00
10−3 0.98 0.95 0.97 0.97 0.96 0.96 1.03 1.04 0.86 0.89
10−4 0.96 1.02 1.05 0.94 0.97 0.95 0.92 1.04 0.82 0.78
Binary 10−2 1.00 0.99 0.99 0.96 0.98 0.93 1.00 0.96 0.85 0.96
10−3 0.98 0.93 0.94 0.87 0.95 0.91 0.97 0.99 0.77 0.87
10−4 0.93 0.92 0.93 0.81 1.00 0.95 0.96 0.90 0.69 0.61