Abstract
A phase transition is taking place today. The amount of data generated by genome resequencing technologies is so large that in some cases it is now less expensive to repeat the experiment than to store the information generated by the experiment. In the next few years it is quite possible that millions of Americans will have been genotyped. The question then arises of how to make the best use of this information and jointly estimate the haplotypes of all these individuals. The premise of the paper is that long shared genomic regions (or tracts) are unlikely unless the haplotypes are identical by descent (IBD), in contrast to short shared tracts which may be identical by state (IBS). Here we estimate for populations, using the US as a model, what sample size of genotyped individuals would be necessary to have sufficiently long shared haplotype regions (tracts) that are identical by descent (IBD), at a statistically significant level. These tracts can then be used as input for a Clark-like phasing method to obtain a complete phasing solution of the sample. We estimate in this paper that for a population like the US and about 1% of the people genotyped (approximately 2 million), tracts of about 200 SNPs long are shared between pairs of individuals IBD with high probability which assures the Clark method phasing success. We show on simulated data that the algorithm will get an almost perfect solution if the number of individuals being SNP arrayed is large enough and the correctness of the algorithm grows with the number of individuals being genotyped.
We also study a related problem that connects copy number variation with phasing algorithm success. A loss of heterozygosity (LOH) event is when, by the laws of Mendelian inheritance, an individual should be heterozygote but, due to a deletion polymorphism, is not. Such polymorphisms are difficult to detect using existing algorithms, but play an important role in the genetics of disease and will confuse haplotype phasing algorithms if not accounted for. We will present an algorithm for detecting LOH regions across the genomes of thousands of individuals. The design of the long-range phasing algorithm and the Loss of Heterozygosity inference algorithms was inspired by analyzing of the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) GWAS dataset of the International Multiple Sclerosis Consortium and we present in this paper similar results with those obtained from the MS data.
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Halldórsson, B.V., Aguiar, D., Tarpine, R., Istrail, S. (2010). The Clark Phase-able Sample Size Problem: Long-Range Phasing and Loss of Heterozygosity in GWAS. In: Berger, B. (eds) Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6044. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12683-3_11
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