Model-based inference of haplotype block variation

  • Authors:
  • Gideon Greenspan;Dan Geiger

  • Affiliations:
  • Technion, Technion City, Haifa, Israel;Technion, Technion City, Haifa, Israel

  • Venue:
  • RECOMB '03 Proceedings of the seventh annual international conference on Research in computational molecular biology
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The uneven recombination structure of human DNA has been highlighted by several recent studies. Knowledge of the haplotype blocks generated by this phenomenon can be applied to dramatically increase the statistical power of genetic mapping. Several criteria have already been proposed for identifying these blocks, all of which require haplotypes as input. We propose a comprehensive statistical model of haplotype block variation and show how the parameters of this model can be learned from haplotypes and/or unphased genotype data. Using real-world SNP data, we demonstrate that our approach can be used to resolve genotypes into their constituent haplotypes with greater accuracy than previously known methods.