Research Article

Fast and Accurate Genome-Wide Association Test of Multiple Quantitative Traits

Table 1

Type I error of multitrait tests ( divided by the nominal significance level . The MAFs of SNP are 0.1 and 0.2 in the two populations, respectively. is the -DF omnibus Wald test; and are the 1-DF Wald tests assuming a common or common scaled effect. are the corresponding GEE-based -DF omnibus test and 1-DF tests assuming a common effect or common scaled effect.


0.690.790.890.670.790.89
0.74 0.850.930.710.830.92
0.74 0.850.890.710.830.92
1.04 1.001.001.031.011.00
0.98 0.991.010.970.991.00
0.96 0.981.000.960.980.99