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Table 1 Comparison of performances of different methods on simple models of pure epistatic interactions

From: SNPInterForest: A new method for detecting epistatic interactions

 

SNPInterForest

BOOST

SNPHarvester

 

# of true positives

(N total = 50)

# of false positives

# of true positives

(N total = 50)

# of false positives

# of true positives

(N total = 50)

# of false positives

h2 = 0.4, MAF = 0.2

50

0

50

6

37

0

h2 = 0.4, MAF = 0.4

50

0

50

9

38

0

h2 = 0.3, MAF = 0.2

50

0

50

1

36

0

h2 = 0.3, MAF = 0.4

50

0

50

5

38

0

h2 = 0.2, MAF = 0.2

49

1

50

1

36

0

h2 = 0.2, MAF = 0.4

49

0

50

5

39

1

 

# of true positives

(Ntotal = 5)

# of false positives

# of true positives

(Ntotal = 5)

# of false positives

# of true positives

(Ntotal = 5)

# of false positives

3SNP interaction

5

0

-

-

0

0