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Table 3 Type I error of score tests, as a function of haplotype diversity

From: Density-based clustering in haplotype analysis for association mapping

  

Haplotype analyses

Cluster analyses

Diversity

Haplotypesa

α = 0.05

α = 0.01

d.f.b

α = 0.05

α = 0.01

d.f.b

6 Markers

       

   Low

4.2

0.031

0.001

3.17

0.060

0.012

1.21

   Medium

10

0.022

0.003

8.70

0.035

0.003

4.02

   High

17

0.015

0.001

15.40

0.035

0.002

7.12

   Very high

28

0.010

0.002

23.02

0.040

0.007

10.06

8 Markers

       

   Low

5.2

0.027

0.006

4.18

0.042

0.007

1.00

   Medium

15

0.030

0.003

11.53

0.047

0.010

4.81

   High

25

0.011

0.000

21.28

0.038

0.005

8.82

   Very high

48

0.002

0.000

40.15

0.025

0.001

23.18

  1. aMean haplotype diversity over samples of 200 each RA cases and controls taken from 50 different Problem 3 replicates.
  2. bDegrees of freedom from the score test averaged over 1000 samples of 150 each cases and controls analyzed with adjustment for sex and DRB1*04 alleles.