GWAS Genome-Wide Significance Threshold 5e-8 Bonferroni Lookup
Retrieve the conventional GWAS threshold and its limits. Bounded exact-key educational reference only; observations and applicability must be established independently.
Description
Retrieve the conventional GWAS threshold and its limits.
A conventional genome-wide significance threshold is a statistical reference point rather than a universal discovery rule. Study design and the number of tested hypotheses still matter.
When to use this tool
Retrieve the conventional GWAS threshold and its limits.
- Prepare the supplied key fields for this operation.
- Compare the complete example with the representation used by your own input before carrying the result into another step.
How to use the tool and how it works
- Enter key. Use the exact text syntax, units and index conventions explained below.
- Run the tool. If input validation fails, correct the supplied fields before interpreting any result.
- Read result.reference. Interpret false, null and empty lists using the distinctions below; they can be valid outputs.
Supply key exactly as one of "conventional". Check for that own key in the fixed local table and return its stored reference text unchanged. An unsupported key is an input error, rather than a null result; there is no network request, fuzzy matching or dynamic text generation.1
| Input field | Meaning and representation | Accepted input |
|---|---|---|
| key | Exact stored-entry key; spelling and case must match. | "conventional" |
| Output field | Interpretation |
|---|---|
| result | Object containing the named outputs below. |
| result.reference | The unchanged stored text for the supported exact key; unsupported keys cause an input error. |
{
"input": {
"key": "conventional"
},
"output": {
"result": {
"reference": "5\u00d710^-8 is a conventional common-variant GWAS significance threshold; ancestry, test count and design can require a different independently justified threshold."
}
}
}Limitations and assumptions
- The tool returns one stored threshold-context note, not a p-value test or multiple-testing correction. It does not assess ancestry, phenotype design or replication evidence.
- Every declared top-level field is required and unexpected fields are rejected. Numeric inputs must be finite; ordinary text fields are bounded to 8,192 UTF-16 code units, with tighter operation-specific limits where stated.
- Ordinary string lists have at most 128 entries of at most 128 code units each; numeric lists and matrices have separate bounded size checks. Nonfinite results and excessively large serialized outputs are rejected.
- Indexes are zero-based and spans have an exclusive end unless explicitly stated otherwise. A valid false, null or empty-list result is distinct from malformed input.
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