Maximum likelihood resolution of multi-block genotypes

  • Authors:
  • Gad Kimmel;Ron Shamir

  • Affiliations:
  • Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel;Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Venue:
  • RECOMB '04 Proceedings of the eighth annual international conference on Resaerch in computational molecular biology
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We present a new algorithm for the problems of genotype phasing and block partitioning. Our algorithm is based on a new stochastic model, and on the novel concept of probabilistic common haplotypes. We formulate the goals of genotype resolving and block partitioning as a maximum likelihood problem, and solve it by an EM algorithm. When applied to real biological SNP data, our algorithm outperforms two state of the art phasing algorithms. Our algorithm is also considerably more sensitive and accurate than a previous method in predicting and identifying disease association.