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Provedor de dados: 	74	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	A straightforward multiallelic significance test for the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium law	
Autores: 	Lauretto,Marcelo S.; Nakano,Fabio; Faria Jr,Silvio R.; Pereira,Carlos A.B.; Stern,Julio M.	
Data: 	2009-01-01	
Ano: 	2009	
Palavras-chave: 	Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium; Significance tests; FBST.	
Resumo: 	Much forensic inference based upon DNA evidence is made assuming Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE) for the genetic loci being used. Several statistical tests to detect and measure deviation from HWE have been devised, and their limitations become more obvious when testing for deviation within multiallelic DNA loci. The most popular methods-Chi-square and Likelihood-ratio tests-are based on asymptotic results and cannot guarantee a good performance in the presence of low frequency genotypes. Since the parameter space dimension increases at a quadratic rate on the number of alleles, some authors suggest applying sequential methods, where the multiallelic case is reformulated as a sequence of "biallelic" tests. However, in this approach it is not obvious how to assess the general evidence of the original hypothesis; nor is it clear how to establish the significance level for its acceptance/rejection. In this work, we introduce a straightforward method for the multiallelic HWE test, which overcomes the aforementioned issues of sequential methods. The core theory for the proposed method is given by the Full Bayesian Significance Test (FBST), an intuitive Bayesian approach which does not assign positive probabilities to zero measure sets when testing sharp hypotheses. We compare FBST performance to Chi-square, Likelihood-ratio and Markov chain tests, in three numerical experiments. The results suggest that FBST is a robust and high performance method for the HWE test, even in the presence of several alleles and small sample sizes.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572009000300028	
Editor: 	Sociedade Brasileira de Genética	
Relação: 	10.1590/S1415-47572009000300028	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Genetics and Molecular Biology  v.32 n.3 2009	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess