Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-30-2010
Publication Title
BioMed Central Genetics
Department
Department of Mathematics
Abstract
The availability of high density genetic maps and genotyping platforms has transformed human genetic studies. The use of these platforms has enabled population-based genome-wide association studies. However, in inheritance-based studies, current methods do not take full advantage of the information present in such genotyping analyses. In this paper we describe an improved method for identifying genetic regions shared identical-by-descent (IBD) from recent common ancestors. This method improves existing methods by taking advantage of phase information even if it is less than fully accurate or missing. We present an analysis of how using phase information increases the accuracy of IBD detection compared to using only genotype information.
DOI
10.1186/1471-2156-11-58
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Genovese, Giulio; Leibon, Gregory; Pollak, Martin R.; and Rockmore, Daniel N., "Improved IBD Detection Using Incomplete Haplotype Information" (2010). Dartmouth Scholarship. 597.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/597
