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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Genet Epidemiol. 2015 May 21;39(6):427–438. doi: 10.1002/gepi.21906

Table 5.

Comparison between prediction R2 of PRSunadj, PRSadj, and PRSadj + ancestry in simulations with different training sample sizes

The fluctuations in R2 of PRSunadj are not statistically significant based on the number of simulations performed.

R2
Training sample size (N) PRSunadj (SE) PRSadj (SE) PRSadj + ancestry (SE)
1,000 0.041 (0.0016) 0.003 (0.0002) 0.042 (0.0016)
5,000 0.041 (0.0020) 0.014 (0.0004) 0.051 (0.0019)
10,000 0.043 (0.0019) 0.027 (0.0005) 0.064 (0.0018)
50,000 0.045 (0.0020) 0.111 (0.011) 0.139 (0.0019)
100,000 0.044 (0.0020) 0.182 (0.0011) 0.201 (0.0017)
500,000 0.042 (0.0020) 0.380 (0.0015) 0.384 (0.0016)
1,000,000 0.042 (0.0018) 0.439 (0.0012) 0.440 (0.0013)

SE: standard error

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