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Genotype harmonizer: automatic strand alignment and format conversion for genotype data integration.

Patrick Deelen¹, Marc Jan Bonder, K Joeri van der Velde

¹University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Genomics Coordination Center, Groningen, the Netherlands. patrickdeelen@gmail.com.

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Genotype Harmonizer (GH) is a new tool that automatically harmonizes genetic datasets, solving file format and genomic strand issues. This simplifies data pooling for meta-analyses and genotype imputation.

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Area of Science:

Genetics
Bioinformatics
Computational Biology

Background:

Harmonizing genetic datasets is crucial for statistical power in meta-analyses and genotype imputation.
Current harmonization methods are error-prone due to diverse file formats and ambiguous genomic strand references.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce Genotype Harmonizer (GH), a command-line tool for automated genetic data harmonization.
To address challenges in aligning genomic data across different formats and reference strands.

Main Methods:

GH automatically resolves genomic strand ambiguity for A/T and G/C SNPs using linkage disequilibrium.
It supports multiple common genotype formats like PLINK, VCF, SHAPEIT2, and Oxford GEN.
The tool is implemented in Java and offers a reusable Java 'Genotype-IO' API.

Main Results:

GH successfully harmonizes genetic datasets by automatically addressing file format and genomic strand discrepancies.
It leverages linkage disequilibrium patterns to orient ambiguous SNPs without requiring prior strand information.

Conclusions:

Genotype Harmonizer (GH) streamlines the harmonization of genetic datasets across various file formats.
GH can be readily integrated into standard meta-analysis and genotype imputation pipelines.