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. 2020 Jun 15;215(4):947–958. doi: 10.1534/genetics.120.303242

Table 1. Type l error rates of different methods with the Freesurfer trait correlation matrix.

α 5 × 102 1 × 102 1 × 104 1 × 106 5 × 107 5 × 108
SUM 5.0 × 10−2 1.0 × 10−2 1.0 × 10−4 9.7 × 10−7 5.2 × 10−7 4.5 × 10−8
SSU 4.6 × 10−2 1.0 × 10−2 1.8 × 10−4 3.5 × 10−6a 2.0 × 10−6a 2.7 × 10−7a
Chi-squared 4.7 ×10−2 1.0 × 10−2 1.7 × 10−4a 4.3 × 10−6a 2.6 × 10−6 4.9 × 10−7a
Hom 5.6 × 10−1a 4.5 × 10−1a 2.5 × 10−1a 1.5 × 10−1a 1.4 × 10−1a 1.1 × 10−1a
MAT(1) 5.0 × 10−2 1.0 × 10−2 1.0 ×10−4 9.8 ×10−7 4.8 ×10−7 4.8 ×10−8
MAT(10) 5.0 × 10−2 1.0 × 10−2 1.0 ×10−4 1.0 × 10−6 4.9 ×10−7 4.5 × 10−8
MAT(30) 5.0 × 10−2 1.0 × 10−2 1.0 ×10−4 1.0 × 10−6 5.2 × 10−7 5.4 × 10−8
MAT(50) 5.0 × 10−2 1.0 × 10−2 9.9 × 10−5 9.6 × 10−7 4.4 × 10−7 4.6 × 10−8
aMAT 4.7 × 10−2 9.4 × 10−3 9.5 × 10−5 1.1 × 10−6 5.5 × 10−7 4.7 × 10−8

We simulated 1 billion (1 × 109) replications under the null and estimated Type l error rates as the proportions of P-values less than significance level α.

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Inflated Type l error rates.