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Here, we presented an alternative approach that properly control for multiple testing at the CpG level.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results : We performed cis meQTL mapping for varying window sizes using publicly available single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and 450 kb data, extracting the CpGs from the significant CpG\u2013SNP pairs ( FDR&amp;lt;0.05 ). Using a new bait-and-switch simulation approach, we show that up to 50% of the CpGs found in the simulated data may be false-positive results. We present an alternative two-step multiple testing approach using the Simes and Benjamini\u2013Hochberg procedures that does control the FDR among the CpGs, as confirmed by the bait-and-switch simulation. This approach indicates the use of window sizes in cis meQTL mapping studies that are significantly smaller than commonly adopted.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Discussion : Our approach to cis meQTL mapping properly controls the FDR at the CpG level, is computationally fast and can also be applied to cis eQTL studies.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Availability and implementation : An examplary R script for performing the Simes procedure is available as supplementary material.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact : e.w.van_zwet@lumc.nl or b.t.heijmans@lumc.nl<\/jats:p><jats:p>Supplementary information : Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btu654","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,10,5]],"date-time":"2014-10-05T00:35:52Z","timestamp":1412469352000},"page":"340-345","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["An alternative approach to multiple testing for methylation QTL mapping reduces the proportion of falsely identified CpGs"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"31","author":[{"given":"Ren\u00e9","family":"Luijk","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Molecular Epidemiology, 2 Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZC Leiden and 3 Biostatistics, Department for Health Evidence, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands"},{"name":"1 Department of Molecular Epidemiology, 2 Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZC Leiden and 3 Biostatistics, Department for Health Evidence, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jelle J.","family":"Goeman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Molecular Epidemiology, 2 Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZC Leiden and 3 Biostatistics, Department for Health Evidence, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eline P.","family":"Slagboom","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Molecular Epidemiology, 2 Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZC Leiden and 3 Biostatistics, Department for Health Evidence, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bastiaan T.","family":"Heijmans","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Molecular Epidemiology, 2 Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZC Leiden and 3 Biostatistics, Department for Health Evidence, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Erik W.","family":"van Zwet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Molecular Epidemiology, 2 Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZC Leiden and 3 Biostatistics, Department for Health Evidence, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,10,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020116162585100_btu654-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"R10","DOI":"10.1186\/gb-2011-12-1-r10","article-title":"DNA methylation patterns associate with genetic and gene expression variation in HapMap cell lines","volume":"12","author":"Bell","year":"2011","journal-title":"Genome Biol."},{"key":"2023020116162585100_btu654-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"289","DOI":"10.1111\/j.2517-6161.1995.tb02031.x","article-title":"Controlling the false discovery rate: a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing","volume":"57","author":"Benjamini","year":"1995","journal-title":"J. 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