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Table 1 Settings for creation of synthetic pathways

From: A multistep approach to single nucleotide polymorphism–set analysis: an evaluation of power and type I error of gene-based tests of association after pathway-based association tests

Number of genes

5

10

Total

Percent Causal

20

40

60

100

20

40

60

100

Number of pathways

15

11

10

5

15

11

10

5

82

  1. Genes were randomly sampled without replacement and placed into sets of genes, or pathways, of varying sizes. The percent of genes in the pathway containing at least 1 causal variant also varied across sets