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Table 1 Simulated power (%) to detect a polymorphism with varying minor allele frequency and risk ratio, under a multiplicative model at a significance level 10-4

From: An international initiative to identify genetic modifiers of cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers: the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 (CIMBA)

Minor allele frequency

Relative hazard

Sample size: 5000

Sample size: 10,000

0.10

1.1

2

7

 

1.2

33

80

 

1.3

86

100

0.20

1.1

5

26

 

1.2

74

100

 

1.3

100

100

0.30

1.1

10

44

 

1.2

89

100

 

1.3

100

100

  1. Simulations performed as in [5].