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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Genet Epidemiol. 2014 Apr 9;38(4):369–378. doi: 10.1002/gepi.21800

Table IV.

The number of SNPs with p-values below thresholds (0.05 and 1×10-4) out of 131,880 SNPs. Gonomic control (GC) correction preserved type I error.

Analysis 1DF Main Only 1DF Main 1DF Interaction 2DF Joint Main and Int.
P < 0.05 Mega-analysis 6,617 (6%) 5,935 (5%) 13,584 (11%) 11,691 (9%)
Meta-analysis 6,617 (6%) 5,935 (5%) 13,584 (11%) 11,691 (9%)
Mega-GC analysis 6,896 (5%) 7,167 (5%) 6,469 (5%) 7,529 (6%)
Meta-GC analysis 6,970 (5%) 7,024 (5%) 6,604 (5%) 7,945 (6%)
GC-Meta analysis 6,527 (5%) 5,710 (4%) 6,752 (5%) 7,790 (6%)

P < 1×10-4 Mega-analysis 37 2 215 108
Meta-analysis 20 3 188 118
Mega-GC analysis 20 2 8 35
Meta-GC analysis 32 4 9 36
GC-Meta analysis 20 2 8 35

For Mega-GC and Meta-GC, GC correction was applied after mega-analysis and meta-analysis, respectively. For GC-Meta, GC correction was applied for each study-specific analysis before meta-analysis.