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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 76, Issue 5, Pages 887-893Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/429864
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Deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) can indicate inbreeding, population stratification, and even problems in genotyping. In samples of affected individuals, these deviations can also provide evidence for association. Tests of HWE are commonly performed using a simple chi(2) goodness-of-fit test. We show that this chi(2) test can have inflated type I error rates, even in relatively large samples (e.g., samples of 1,000 individuals that include similar to 100 copies of the minor allele). On the basis of previous work, we describe exact tests of HWE together with efficient computational methods for their implementation. Our methods adequately control type I error in large and small samples and are computationally efficient. They have been implemented in freely available code that will be useful for quality assessment of genotype data and for the detection of genetic association or population stratification in very large data sets.
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