Comparing self-reported ethnicity to genetic background measures in the context of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

Table 5 Observed type I error rates when controlling for individual ancestry estimate, true ethnicity and self-reported ethnicity assuming various misclassification error rates when admixed population results from intermating between exactly two ancestral populations

Gap	Misclassification rate	Ethnicity	Admixture	SRE
	0.05	0.067	0.046	0.402
0.05	0.075	0.087	0.041	0.46
	0.1	0.089	0.061	0.432
	0.125	0.083	0.059	0.42
	0.15	0.071	0.047	0.427
	0.05	0.061	0.054	0.517
0.2	0.075	0.075	0.059	0.52
	0.1	0.077	0.051	0.518
	0.125	0.063	0.045	0.517
	0.15	0.067	0.055	0.492
	0.05	0.058	0.05	0.631
0.35	0.075	0.06	0.056	0.622
	0.1	0.067	0.051	0.657
	0.125	0.06	0.052	0.62
	0.15	0.054	0.044	0.642
	0.05	0.064	0.066	0.752
0.5	0.075	0.061	0.063	0.767
	0.1	0.043	0.038	0.787
	0.125	0.05	0.043	0.783
	0.15	0.062	0.064	0.765

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