Table 2 False positive rate (FPR), power and accuracy in mapping marginal-effect QTL in the non-epistatic scenariosa

From: Controlling false positives in the mapping of epistatic QTL

 

QTL b

FPR (%)

Power (%)c

Exact (%)c

noGenetic

0.1

5.4

—

—

0QTL_noEpi

0.1

6.1

—

—

1QTL_noEpi

0.5

5.4

48.2

28.4

2QTL_noEpi

1.0

4.5

48.5

27.4

5QTL_noEpi

2.6

3.7

51.1

28.1

8QTL_noEpi

4.4

4.2

54.8

35.0

  1. aEach scenario used at least 1100 simulation replicates.
  2. bThe average number of marginal-effect QTL detected per replicate.
  3. cAveraged by the number of non-epistatic QTL simulated in a scenario.
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