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Simulations exploring how power fuctuates as a function of total variance explained when the effect is spread over 100 SNPs.

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posted on 2014-03-13, 08:41 authored by W. David Hill, Christiaan de Leeuw, Gail Davies, David Cherry McLachlan Liewald, Anthony Payton, Leone C. A. Craig, Lawrence J. Whalley, Mike Horan, William Ollier, John M. Starr, Neil Pendleton, Danielle Posthuma, Timothy C. Bates, Ian J. Deary

For each effect size (1,2,3,4,5 or 10% of the total variance) 100 simulations were carried out. The mean power from these 100 simulations is shown in red with error bars depicting ±1 standard error.

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