Journal
BIOSTATISTICS
Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages 593-600Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxn007
Keywords
genetic association studies
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The problem of testing for genotype-phenotype association with loci on the X chromosome in mixed-sex samples has received surprisingly little attention. A simple test can be constructed by counting alleles, with males contributing a single allele and females 2. This approach does assume not only Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in the population from which the study subjects are sampled but also, perhaps, an unrealistic alternative hypothesis. This paper proposes 1 and 2 degree-of-freedom tests for association which do not assume Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and which treat males as homozygous females. The proposed method remains valid when phenotype varies between sexes, provided the allele frequency does not, and avoids the loss of power resulting from stratification by sex in such circumstances.
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