Chunk #24 — False discovery rates

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Detecting multiple associations in genome-wide studies.

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The original FDR by Benjamini and Hochberg[52] is the expected proportion of false positives among all positive results, with the proportion defined as zero if there are no positives. That is, if R is the number of positive results in a study and V is the number of these that are false -- that is, do not arise from true gene effects -- then: