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. 2019 Jan 10;104(2):260–274. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.12.012

Table 2.

Empirical Type I Error Rates of SMMAT-B, SMMAT-S, SMMAT-O, and SMMAT-E Assuming All Studies in the Same Group (hom) and Scenario A, B, C, and D Studies in Four Separate Groups (het), in Meta-analysis Simulation Studies at Significance Levels of 0.05, 0.0001, and 2.5 × 10−6


Continuous Traits
Binary Traits
Level 0.05 0.0001 2.5 × 10−6 0.05 0.0001 2.5 × 10−6
SMMAT-B 0.051 1.0 × 10−4 2.6 × 10−6 0.051 1.1 × 10−4 2.5 × 10−6
Hom SMMAT-S 0.051 1.0 × 10−4 2.6 × 10−6 0.051 1.1 × 10−4 2.1 × 10−6
Het SMMAT-S 0.051 1.0 × 10−4 2.8 × 10−6 0.052 1.0 × 10−4 2.4 × 10−6
Hom SMMAT-O 0.053 1.3 × 10−4 4.0 × 10−6 0.053 1.4 × 10−4 3.4 × 10−6
Het SMMAT-O 0.052 1.1 × 10−4 2.6 × 10−6 0.052 1.1 × 10−4 2.2 × 10−6
Hom SMMAT-E 0.051 1.0 × 10−4 2.5 × 10−6 0.051 1.1 × 10−4 2.6 × 10−6
Het SMMAT-E 0.051 1.0 × 10−4 2.8 × 10−6 0.052 1.1 × 10−4 3.0 × 10−6

The total sample size was 12,000 from 12 studies, and results from 4,000 simulation replicates were combined to get 40 million genetic variant sets.