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. 2019 May 16;104(6):1097–1115. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.04.009

Table 1.

Type I Error Rate from Analysis with No Adjustment, Global-Ancestry Adjustment, and Local-Ancestry Adjustment for Population Structure

Effect Size Percentile Stratification Source (Effect Size) No Adjustment GA Adjustment LA Adjustment
(100% percentile) GA (57.47) 2.75 × 10−4 9.79 × 10−5 1.10 × 10−4
LA (1.13) 1.07 × 10−2 4.12 × 10−3 1.03 × 10−4
(75% percentile) GA (22.43) 1.20 × 10−4 1.02 × 10−4 1.00 × 10−4
LA (0.27) 2.00 × 10−4 1.50 × 10−4 1.04 × 10−4
(50% percentile) GA (13.40) 1.05 × 10−4 9.85 × 10-5 9.83 × 10−5
LA (0.16) 1.30 × 10−4 1.19 × 10−4 1.01 × 10−4
(25% percentile) GA (6.71) 1.03 × 10−4 9.84 × 10−5 1.01 × 10−4
LA (0.07) 1.07 × 10−4 1.03 × 10−4 9.84 × 10−5

False positives were identified by using p < 1 × 10−4. GA stands for global ancestry and LA stands for local ancestry.