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Table 1 Ranking of empirical estimations of marginal posterior probability of significant effects under two prior assumptions

From: A Bayesian genome-wide linkage analysis of quantitative traits for rheumatoid arthritis via perfect sampling

(w1, w2) = (0.01, 0.01) (w1, w11, w10, w00) = (0.01, 0.01, 0.01, 0.005)
Ranking Chromosome Relative frequencya Ranking Chromosome Relative frequency
1 Chr 6 0.35 1 Chr 6 0.37
2 Chr 5 0.28 2 Chr 4 0.35
3 Chr 4 0.21 3 Chr 5 0.28
4 Chr19 0.17 4 Chr19 0.11
5 Chr 6 × Chr 19b 0.15 5 Chr 2 0.08
6 Chr 2 0.09 6 Chr 6 × Chr 16 0.05
7 Chr 6 × Chr 16 0.05 7 Chr 6 × Chr 21 0.04
8 Chr 6 × Chr 21 0.03 8 Chr 6 × Chr 19 0.02
  Others <0.01   Others <0.005
  1. aRelative frequency corresponds to the frequency appeared in the samples. Effects that appeared more than once are displayed.
  2. b"A × B" stands for an epistasis between chromosomes A and B.
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