A total of 6129 North American Caucasians were blood typed for theMN locus, which is determined by two codominant alleles, LM and LN.The following data were obtained:Blood type          NumberM                        1787MN                      3039N                         1303Use a chi-square test to determine whether this population is in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium at the MN locus.

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