PIGS: improved estimates of identity-by-descent probabilities by probabilistic IBD graph sampling

BMC Bioinformatics. 2015;16 Suppl 5(Suppl 5):S9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-16-S5-S9. Epub 2015 Mar 18.

Abstract

Identifying segments in the genome of different individuals that are identical-by-descent (IBD) is a fundamental element of genetics. IBD data is used for numerous applications including demographic inference, heritability estimation, and mapping disease loci. Simultaneous detection of IBD over multiple haplotypes has proven to be computationally difficult. To overcome this, many state of the art methods estimate the probability of IBD between each pair of haplotypes separately. While computationally efficient, these methods fail to leverage the clique structure of IBD resulting in less powerful IBD identification, especially for small IBD segments.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Asthma / epidemiology
  • Asthma / genetics*
  • Cohort Studies
  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Computer Simulation
  • Genetics, Population*
  • Genome, Human*
  • Haplotypes / genetics*
  • Hispanic or Latino / genetics
  • Humans
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / genetics*
  • Probability