Article
Hardy-Weinberg quality control.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Nov 1999
Gomes I, Collins A, Lonjou C, Thomas N S, Wilkinson J, Watson M, Morton N
Abstract excerpt
An efficient test of deviation from Hardy-Weinberg frequencies with one degree of freedom was applied to 44 marker loci in a genome scan, and 7 loci had a significant excess of apparent homozygotes (chi2 (1) > 6) suggestive of typing error. In this example evidence for linkage did not increase when outliers were censored. Statistical quality control is an essential part of genotyping, and the effect of mistyping...
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