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False negative rate as well

Posted by p-ter on 30 Mar 2007 at 00:10 GMT

recent studies have suggested that such outlier approaches provide a number of false positive loci because of the large size of the human genome [26], [27]
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Teshima et al. (cited here) show that the false negative rate in there studies is likely to be substantial; indeed they wonder if it may be a more important factor in the reliability of these sorts of studies.