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. 2020 Aug 17;10:294. doi: 10.1038/s41398-020-00957-5

Table 4.

Prediction accuracy in simulation studies in which the phenotype is associated with SNPs only (heritability = 0.10).

Distribution of the true SNP effects Prediction models Number of true susceptibility variants
100 200 500 2000 5000
Mean (SE) PCC Powera Mean (SE) PCC Powera Mean (SE) PCC Powera Mean (SE) PCC Powera Mean (SE) PCC Powera
Laplace distribution STMGP 0.1520 (0.0293) 1.00 0.1029 (0.0408) 1.00 0.0521 (0.0252) 0.80 0.0241 (0.0193) 0.35 0.0217 (0.0171) 0.25
PRS 0.0454 (0.0434) 0.75 0.0421 (0.0247) 0.85 –0.0018 (0.0283) 0.10 0.0128 (0.0203) 0.15 0.0004 (0.0203) 0.10
GBLUP 0.0137 (0.0134) 0.05 0.0201 (0.0143) 0.15 0.0163 (0.0190) 0.20 0.0198 (0.0133) 0.25 0.0199 (0.0201) 0.15
SBLUP 0.0140 (0.0148) 0.05 0.0186 (0.0143) 0.10 0.0150 (0.0200) 0.20 0.0189 (0.0159) 0.25 0.0186 (0.0189) 0.15
BayesR 0.1217 (0.0680) 0.90 0.0782 (0.0475) 0.85 0.0345 (0.0337) 0.35 0.0202 (0.0195) 0.25 0.0172 (0.0222) 0.15
Ridge 0.0183 (0.0158) 0.20 0.0188 (0.0138) 0.20 0.0215 (0.0212) 0.30 0.0184 (0.0111) 0.10 0.0171 (0.0192) 0.15
Normal distribution STMGP 0.1045 (0.0281) 1.00 0.0638 (0.0205) 0.95 0.0236 (0.0122) 0.30 0.0208 (0.0156) 0.25 0.0195 (0.0186) 0.15
PRS 0.0258 (0.0305) 0.50 0.0177 (0.0220) 0.30 0.0079 (0.0224) 0.15 0.0053 (0.0216) 0.10 0.0015 (0.0233) 0.00
GBLUP 0.0220 (0.0168) 0.30 0.0202 (0.0172) 0.15 0.0161 (0.0147) 0.15 0.0172 (0.0191) 0.15 0.0204 (0.0132) 0.15
SBLUP 0.0215 (0.0173) 0.30 0.0195 (0.0174) 0.15 0.0173 (0.0150) 0.15 0.0185 (0.0198) 0.20 0.0206 (0.0129) 0.15
BayesR 0.0943 (0.0489) 0.90 0.0444 (0.0224) 0.70 0.0210 (0.0171) 0.15 0.0189 (0.0135) 0.20 0.0130 (0.0127) 0.05
Ridge 0.0251 (0.0156) 0.40 0.0269 (0.0180) 0.40 0.0187 (0.0184) 0.15 0.0170 (0.0162) 0.15 0.0154 (0.0179) 0.10

PCC predictive correlation coefficient, SE standardized error, STMGP Smooth-Threshold Multivariate Genetic Prediction, PRS polygenic risk scores, GBLUP genomic best linear-unbiased prediction, SBLUP summary-data-based best linear-unbiased prediction, NEG normal–exponential–gamma.

aPower is the proportion of replicates achieving a significant prediction at P value < 0.05.