Testing the Hardy-Weinberg law across strata.

doi:10.1111/j.1469-1809.1993.tb00903.x

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Testing the Hardy-Weinberg law across strata.

Annals of human genetics - 1 Oct 1993

Olson J M

Abstract excerpt

The problem of testing the Hardy-Weinberg law when data are sampled from several populations with different allele frequencies is considered. An odds-ratio representation of disequilibrium is proposed. This ratio is assumed to be constant across strata, an assumption that seems more reasonable th...

Topics

Alleles
Ethnicity
Gene Frequency
Genetics, Population
Genotype
Humans
India
Lactoylglutathione Lyase
Probability

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