Examining the rare disease assumption used to justify HWE testing with control samples.

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Many statistical methods for analyzing genetic data, such as those used in genome-wide association studies, assume Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE). Therefore, to use such methods, one must check whether the HWE assumption is valid. For a case-control study, researchers have recognized that Hardy Weinberg proportions will be distorted if the marker being tested happens to be associated with the disease. To...

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