Comparing self-reported ethnicity to genetic background measures in the context of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

Table 3 Type I error associated with the test for association between LV mass and the 96 AIMs

Control variable	Average Type I error	Standard error	Observed minimum Type I error	Observed Maximum Type I error
Individual admixture estimates	0.033	0.006	0.0105	0.042
Principal components	0.048	0.0074	0.021	0.052
Self-reported Ethnicity	0.037	0.006	0.021	0.052
Ignoring confounding	0.320	0.022	0.221	0.357

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