Testing for association on the X chromosome.

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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...

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