Table 3.
GWAS significance thresholds for correlated genotypes and phenotypes in this data set
Methods | GWAS threshold for one phenotype | Effective number of phenotypic tests | Family-wise threshold (alpha=0.05) |
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Bonferroni correction | 1.16E-08 | 335 | 3.46E-11 |
Nyholt method for phenotypes with Bonferroni correction of genotypes | 1.16E-08 | 286 | 4.06E-11 |
Li and Ji method for phenotypes with Bonferroni correction of genotypes | 1.16E-08 | 122 | 9.51E-11 |
Han et al (LD in sliding window of genotypes, Li and Ji for phenotypes) | 2.86E-08 | 122 | 2.34E-10 |
Li et al (Block wise LD of genotypes, Li and Ji for phenotypes) | 5.54E-08 | 122 | 4.54E-10 |
Gao et al (LD of genotypes, Li and Ji for phenotypes) | 4.08E-08 | 122 | 3.34E-10 |
Permutation of genotype (subject indices) all allele frequencies | 5.29E-08 | NA | 8.39E-13 |
Permutation of genotype (subject indices) (MAF > 0.1) | 5.29E-08 | NA | 1.93E-10 |
Permutation of genotype (subject indices) (SNPs with MAF ≤ 0.1) | 1.51E-08 | NA | 8.39E-13 |