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Expected number of crossings of the diagonal of a lattice path?

If we uniformly choose a lattice path from $(0,0)$ to $(n, n)$ (i.e. at each step we can move from $(x,y)$ to $(x+1,y)$ or $(x,y+1)$), what is the expected number of times that the path crosses the diagonal?