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Table 2 Estimated FWER of Bonferroni and Storey's FDR approaches. Estimated FWER when none of the SNPs associated with the phenotype (m0 = m) and when some of the SNPs associated with the phenotype (m0 <m) based on the 100 simulated datasets.

From: Power and type I error rate of false discovery rate approaches in genome-wide association studies

α

FWER (m0 = m)a

FWER (m0 <m)

 

Bonferroni

Storey's FDR

Bonferroni

Storey's FDR

0.01

0

0

0.03

0.03

0.05

0.01

0.01

0.08

0.21

0.10

0.03

0.03

0.15

0.37

0.15

0.06

0.06

0.21

0.46

  1. am = total number of tests; m0 = number of truly null hypotheses