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Published on: June 23, 2012
NARD: whole-genome reference panel of 1779 Northeast Asians improves imputation accuracy of rare and low-frequency
Seong-Keun Yoo1,2, Chang-Uk Kim2,3, Hie Lim Kim4,5
1Precision Medicine Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 172 Dolma-ro, Seongnam, Bundang-gu, Gyeonggi-do, 13605, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
Here, we present the Northeast Asian Reference Database (NARD), including whole-genome sequencing data of 1779 individuals from Korea, Mongolia, Japan, China, and Hong Kong. NARD provides the genetic diversity of Korean (n = 850) and Mongolian (n = 384) ancestries that were not present in the 1000 Genomes Project Phase 3 (1KGP3). We combined and re-phased the genotypes from NARD and 1KGP3 to construct a union set of haplotypes. This approach established a robust imputation reference panel for Northeast Asians, which yields the greatest imputation accuracy of rare and low-frequency variants compared with the existing panels. NARD imputation panel is available at https://nard.macrogen.com/ .
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