is.hwEq: Check a SNP for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium

In gdmp: Genomic Data Management

Description

Given individual genotypes of a single SNP, the function checks a population of individuals for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.

Usage

is.hwEq(snpG, diff)

Arguments

snpG	is a column vector in the genotypes array, created by toArray and converted to integer genotypes by snpRecode. The column represents genotypes of a single SNP for all individuals in data.
diff	heterozygosity difference used in HW equilibrium, see ‘Details’.

Details

A logical function to check for HW equilibrium, the expected frequency of the heterozygous genotype is estimated based on the two homozygous genetypes by ‘sqrt(4*p^2*q^2)’. The absolute difference between the expected and observed frequency of the heterozygous genotype of the SNP needs to be smaller than the minimum difference of diff.

Value

A logical TRUE for H-W equilibrium or FALSE for H-W disequilibrium is returned.

References

Falconer and Mackay (1996). Introduction to Quantitative Genetics (4th Edition). Pearson Education Limited, Edinburgh, England.

Wiggans et al. (2009). Selection of single-nucleotide polymorphisms and quality of genotypes used in genomic evaluation of dairy cattle in the United States and Canada. Journal of Dairy Science, 92, 3431-3436.

See Also

snpSelect, snpRecode, toArray

Examples

## Simulate random allele designations for 100 bi-allelic SNPs
set.seed(2016)
desig <- array(sample(c('A','C','G','T'), size = 200, repl = TRUE), dim=c(100, 2))

## Simulate random SNP genotypes for 20 individuals - put them in array format
## '-' indicates an unknown base
ga <- array(0, dim=c(20, 100))
for(i in 1:20)
  for(j in 1:100)
    ga[i, j] <- paste(sample(c(desig[j,],"-"), 2, prob=c(.47, .47, .06), repl = TRUE), collapse='')

## Recode the matrix, place recoded genotypes in ga.r
desig <- data.frame(AlleleA_Forward = factor(desig[,1]), AlleleB_Forward = factor(desig[,2]))
ga.r <- array(5, dim=c(20, 100))
for(i in 1:100) ga.r[,i] <- snpRecode(ga[,i], desig[i,])

## Check the first 10 SNPs for H-W equilibrium based on a minimum
## allowed difference of 0.15 between observed and expected heterozygosity
apply(ga.r[,1:10], 2, is.hwEq, diff=.15)
# [1]  TRUE FALSE FALSE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE

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