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Published on: August 12, 2019
Genomic evaluations using similarity between haplotypes
J M Hickey1, B P Kinghorn, B Tier
1School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, Australia.
Summary
This study introduces a novel method for genomic prediction using haplotype similarity. While it better reflects true genetic relationships, it did not improve prediction accuracy over existing methods using unphased genotypes.
Area of Science:
- Animal Breeding and Genetics
- Genomics
- Statistical Genetics
Background:
- Long-range phasing and haplotype imputation provide valuable genetic information for predicting breeding values and phenotypes.
- Modeling long haplotypes directly in genomic prediction is computationally inefficient and sensitive to phasing errors.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and evaluate a method that models haplotype similarity to capture genomic effects covariance.
- To assess the impact of this haplotype similarity method on genomic prediction accuracy.
Main Methods:
- Developed a simple method to construct a genomic relationship matrix based on haplotype similarity.
- Tested the method's performance using simulation studies.
- Compared haplotype-based genomic relationship matrices with those from unphased genotypes and unrelated haplotypes.
Main Results:
- The genomic relationship matrix built using haplotype similarity showed higher correlations with true relationships than matrices from unphased genotypes or unrelated haplotypes.
- Despite improved relationship estimation, haplotype-based prediction methods did not achieve higher prediction accuracy compared to methods using unphased genotypes.
Conclusions:
- Haplotype similarity can more accurately represent true genetic relationships between individuals.
- Current methods for incorporating haplotype information into genomic prediction do not yet surpass the accuracy of using unphased genotypes.
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