Abstract
For loci with multiple alleles, hypotheses about linkage disequilibrium may be tested on the complete set of gametic data, or on various collapsed sets of data. Collapsing data into a few alleles at each locus can change the power of the tests, as implied in a recent paper by Zouros, Golding and Mackay (1977). We show that the nature of such changes can be found from properties of the noncentral chi-square distribution, and that the magnitude and direction of these changes depend on the levels of linkage disequilibria, allelic frequencies and degrees of freedom.
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