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A Bayesian characterization of Hardy-Weinberg disequilibrium.
Genetics - 1 Aug 1998
Shoemaker J, Painter I, Weir B S
Abstract excerpt
A Bayesian method for determining if there are large departures from independence between pairs of alleles at a locus, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE), is presented. We endorse the view that a population will never be exactly in HWE and that there will be occasions when there is a need for an alternative to the usual hypothesis-testing setting. Bayesian methods provide such an alternative, and our approach...
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