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. 2015 Feb 15;16:46. doi: 10.1186/s12859-015-0484-5

Table 2.

Empirical power estimates in the absence of population substructure

ρ Q D ' MMASTOR MFBAT MFQLS
Quantitative phenotypes 0.2 2 0 0.5180 0.2025 0.5830
2 0.5 0.7235 0.3750 0.7805
5 0 0.7800 0.3855 0.7870
5 0.5 0.9200 0.6430 0.9240
0.5 2 0 0.4915 0.1655 0.5400
2 0.5 0.6785 0.3340 0.7505
5 0 0.7015 0.3020 0.7350
5 0.5 0.8725 0.5405 0.8885
Dichotomous phenotypes ρ Q D' MMQLS MFBAT MFQLS
0.2 2 0 0.2015 0.0530 0.2340
2 0.5 0.3050 0.1070 0.3470
5 0 0.3205 0.0995 0.3710
5 0.5 0.6215 0.2460 0.6660
0.5 2 0 0.1795 0.0535 0.2130
2 0.5 0.2945 0.0915 0.3270
5 0 0.2670 0.0910 0.3085
5 0.5 0.5200 0.2130 0.5900

The empirical power was estimated using 2,000 replicates at the 0.005 significance level. We assumed that the number of markers was two, and that their minor allele frequencies were 0.2.