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Accounting for genotyping errors in tagging SNP selection.

W Liu1, T Yang, W Zhao

  • 1Global Discovery and Development Stats, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN 46285, USA. liu_wenlei@lilly.com

Annals of Human Genetics
|March 10, 2007
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Genotyping errors impact SNP selection. A new method accounts for these errors, improving haplotype frequency estimates and selecting tagging SNPs more efficiently than existing algorithms.

Area of Science:

  • Genetics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Biology

Background:

  • Existing tagging SNP selection algorithms assume error-free genotypes, which is unrealistic.
  • Genotyping errors can significantly affect haplotype reconstruction and frequency estimation.
  • Tagging SNP selection methods often rely heavily on accurate haplotype frequency estimates.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel tagging SNP selection method that explicitly accounts for genotyping errors.
  • To improve the accuracy of haplotype frequency and r(2) measure estimation in the presence of errors.
  • To compare the performance of the new method against a standard algorithm (Carlson et al., 2004).

Main Methods:

  • Modified the pair-wise r(2) tagging SNP selection algorithm.

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  • Replaced the standard Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm with an error-aware EM algorithm.
  • Conducted simulation studies to evaluate performance under varying genotyping error rates.

    • Main Results:

    • The proposed method showed a smaller increase in the number of selected tags with increasing genotyping errors compared to the original algorithm.
    • Both methods experienced a dramatic decrease in the power of haplotype association tests with increased errors.
    • Single marker test power also decreased, but less severely than haplotype tests.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed method efficiently selects tagging SNPs by accounting for random genotyping errors.
    • When tag numbers are similar, the new method offers comparable power to existing methods.
    • This approach enhances the reliability of SNP selection in practical, error-prone genotyping data.