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Table 1 The average family-wise type I error rates (step 1) for BEAM, SH and FIM under the significance threshold of 0.1 (after Bonferroni correction). More results can be found in the Additional file 1.

From: Comparative analysis of methods for detecting interacting loci

family-wise type I error rate

BEAM

SH

FIM

1st order

0.094

0.084

0.097

2nd order

0

0.026

0.032

3rd order

0

0.002

0.006