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I'm trying to find out if a particular allele is in Hardy-Weinberg disequilibrium, but the data is poor. What's the minimum population number that you can use to get any sort of respectable conclusion?

I've heard it's 5 individuals minimum for each genotype but can't find a source on that.

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