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Table 1 Type I error for simulated data sets

From: Using ancestral information to detect and localize quantitative trait loci in genome-wide association studies

Parameters		Type I error
α	σ _Y	QBlossoc	LSS
5	10	0.03	0.03
5	20	0.06	0.07
5	30	0.04	0.10
5	40	0.03	0.03
7.5	10	0.06	0.04
7.5	20	0.06	0.06
7.5	30	0.05	0.05
7.5	40	0.07	0.06
10	10	0.08	0.03
10	20	0.04	0.07
10	30	0.03	0.03
10	40	0.02	0.03

For the values of α (the strength of selection) and σ_Y (the standard deviation of the quantitative trait per unit time) considered here, the type I error rates are all near 0.05 for these simulation results.

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