Detection of sharing by descent, long-range phasing and haplotype imputation.
Detection of sharing by descent, long-range phasing and haplotype imputation.
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DOI:
10.1038/ng.216
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发表时间:
2008-09
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30.8
通讯作者:
Stefansson K
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Kong A;Masson G;Frigge ML;Gylfason A;Zusmanovich P;Thorleifsson G;Olason PI;Ingason A;Steinberg S;Rafnar T;Sulem P;Mouy M;Jonsson F;Thorsteinsdottir U;Gudbjartsson DF;Stefansson H;Stefansson K
Uncertainty about the phase of strings of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) creates complications in genetic analysis although methods have been developed for phasing population-based samples. However, these methods can only phase a small number of SNPs effectively, and become unreliable when applied to SNPs spanning many linkage disequilibrium (LD) blocks. Here we show how to phase more than one thousand SNPs simultaneously for a large fraction of the 35,528 Icelanders genotyped by Illumina chips. Moreover, haplotypes that are identical by descent (IBD) between close and distant relatives, e.g. those separated by 10 meioses or more, can often be reliably detected. This method is particularly powerful in studies of the inheritance of recurrent mutations and fine-scale recombinations in large sample sets. A further extension of the method allows us to impute long haplotypes for individuals who are not genotyped.