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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Genet Epidemiol. 2016 Jun 3;40(6):446–460. doi: 10.1002/gepi.21982

Figure 5. Q-Q Plots of LDL p-values for SNPs in Candidate Genes, Based on Different Selection Methods.

Figure 5

We test for association at ~740 SNPs that are located within 4 candidate genes for LDL. For each of the four selection methods, the reported p-value is the geometric mean of the corresponding p-values at each SNP over 20 runs. The p-values in Panel (A) are based on selection of n = 1,000 individuals to be genotyped, and the p-values in Panel (B) are based on selection of n = 2,000 individuals to be genotyped. The dashed line represents the values expected under the null hypothesis. The gray dots represent the benchmark in which all 3,134 genotyped individuals are selected.