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Thank you for your interest in our work. Please find the Fortran program and a brief explanatory text attached to this message.  To compile the program, if you are in a unix environment, and have Fortran 77, type "f77 ge_int.f -o ge_int". You can then call the program by "ge_int". Please report any problems you experience with the program to me.  For notations and assumptions, please refer to "ge_int.txt", as well as to Foppa I, Spiegelman D. AJE 1997; 146:596-604.  I also include the non-interactive version of the program ("ge_intn.f").   If you are on unix, the program can be run (after having been compiled as described above) by   ge_intn < data > out  where data is the name of the input file and out is the output file. For power calculations, for example, the input file has the form:  p 3 5 .2 2 200 1.5 1.5 2  5 .3 2 200 1.5 1.5 2  5 .4 2 200 1.5 1.5 2  "p" stands for power calculation and 3 is the number of lines (i.e. calculations). The numbers of the following lines correspond to:  number of quantiles, gene prevalence, control-case ratio, number of cases, OR(E|G=0)^(k-1) (top-to-bottom  contrast), OR(G|E=0), (OR(E|G=1)/OR(E|G=0))^(k-1) (to-to-bottom contrast).  If you want to do sample size calculations, use the form  s 3 .9 5 .2 2 1.5 1.5 2  .8 5 .3 2 1.5 1.5 2  .7 5 .4 2 1.5 1.5 2   where "s" refers to sample size calculations, and the following lines correspond to:  power to be achieved, number of quantiles, gene prevalence, control-case ratio, OR(E|G=0)^(k-1) (top-to-bottom  contrast), OR(G|E=0), (OR(E|G=1)/OR(E|G=0))^(k-1) (to-to-bottom contrast).  If you wish to receive a compiled version of the program for dos, please let me know. If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to contact me.   Sincerely,   Ivo Foppa