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Creating artificial human genomes using generative neural networks.

Burak Yelmen^1,2,3, Aurélien Decelle^3,4, Linda Ongaro^1,2

¹Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.

|February 4, 2021

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Generative models can now create realistic artificial genomes (AGs) from genetic data, addressing privacy concerns and improving data accessibility for population genetics research.

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Area of Science:

Genomics
Computational Biology
Machine Learning

Background:

Genetic databases are rich resources but often inaccessible due to privacy concerns.
Generative models offer potential for synthetic data creation but are under-exploited in population genetics.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and evaluate deep generative models for creating high-quality, privacy-preserving artificial genomes (AGs).
To demonstrate the utility of AGs in enhancing genetic studies, including data augmentation and analysis.

Main Methods:

Training deep generative adversarial networks (GANs) and restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) on real genomic datasets.
Generating artificial genomes (AGs) and evaluating their ability to replicate source dataset characteristics.

Main Results:

Generated AGs accurately replicate allele frequencies, linkage disequilibrium, haplotype distances, and population structure.
AGs can inherit complex genetic features like signals of selection.
Data augmentation with AGs improved imputation quality for low-frequency alleles.

Conclusions:

Deep generative models can produce high-quality, privacy-preserving artificial genomes.
AGs are valuable assets for genetic studies, offering anonymous alternatives to private databases and enhancing data analysis capabilities.