Chunk #23 — Results — Searches for chromosomal regions identified by clustered SNPs with nominally-significant case vs control differences in both European-American samples
None of 10,000 Monte Carlo simulation trials that each began with random sets of SNPs selected from each of the datasets identified as many overlapping regions as found in the true dataset. The overall Monte Carlo p<0.0001 for the overlap noted in the true data thus provides very high levels of confidence that these independently-derived sets of results do not identify the same set of chromosomal regions by chance alone. Thus, the null hypothesis that the chromosomal regions identified by both samples are identified based only on stochastic grounds is falsified by these Monte Carlo data.
