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

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


Simulations performed as in [5].

Chenevix-Trench et al. Breast Cancer Research 2007 9:104   doi:10.1186/bcr1670