[R] Fastest way to do HWE.exact test on 100K SNP data?

[Ritwik Sinha]

Hi Anna,

I am not really answering your question, but, here goes my (unsolicited)
suggestion. Some time back I did some simulations to see how the HWE tests
performed. In particular I compared the exact test and the chi squared test.
Look at the attached figure Rplots.ps. I saw that for null simulations with
40 individuals, the HWE chi squared test was reasonably close to the
(expected) uniform distribution. However this was obtained using the
function HWE.chisq(X, simulate.p.value=F), the default seemed to have some
issues. Hence my suggestion would be, if you feel comfortable, to replace
the exact test with a chi sq test, at least at the screening level. Once you
identify a set of SNPs with "small" p-values, you could follow them up with
the exact test.

-- 
Ritwik Sinha
Graduate Student
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Case Western Reserve University

http://darwin.cwru.edu/~rsinha <http://darwin.cwru.edu/%7Ersinha>
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