Hail implementation of RUTH

#1

There is a robust implementation of HWE Test that takes into account population substructure:
RUTH - Robust Unified Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium Test. It is used for the TopMed pipeline.

The GitHub repository is here:

It would be great to have an implementation in Hail to run on matrix tables containing a large number of samples with mixed ethnicity…

#2

it looks like all we need is a way to do logistic regression on an arbitrary array/ndarray. Thanks for the submission, this should be feasible to implement in not too long, I think.

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