Table 3

Number of cis-hits and trans-hitsa



Genome-wide significance level (point-wise significance level)





0.05 (4.7 × 10-6)
0.01 (3.2 × 10-7)
0.001 (6.7 × 10-9)

cis-hits
Original (percentage)
108 (0.72)
74 (0.49)
46 (0.30)

Residualb (percentage)
182 (1.20)
128 (0.85)
68 (0.45)





trans-hits
Original (percentage)
1166 (0.028)
296 (0.0070)
96 (0.0023)

Residualb (percentage)
1057 (0.025)
291 (0.0069)
63 (0.0015)

aThere are 4,239,027 trans-pairs and 15,111 cis-pairs in total

bResiduals are regarding 9p13.3 (See text for more details.)

Peng et al. BMC Proceedings 2007 1(Suppl 1):S157