Increase of Rejection Rate in Case-Control Studies with the Differential Genotyping Error Rates

Genotyping error adversely affects the statistical power of case-control association studies and introduces bias in the estimated parameters when the same error mechanism and probabilities apply to both affected and unaffected individuals; that is, when there is non-differential genotype misclassification. Simulation studies have shown that differential genotype misclassification leads to a rejection rate that is higher than the nominal significance level (type I error rate) for some tests of association.