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ASAFE: ancestry-specific allele frequency estimation.

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In a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of an admixed population, such as Hispanic Americans, ancestry-specific allele frequencies can inform the design of a replication GWAS. We derive an EM algorithm to estimate ancestry-specific allele frequencies for a bi-allelic marker given genotypes and local ancestries on a 3-way admixed population, when the phase of each admixed individual's genotype relative to the pair of local ancestries is unknown. We call our algorithm Ancestry Specific Allele Frequency Estimation (ASAFE). We demonstrate that ASAFE has low error on simulated data.

Availability and implementation

The R source code for ASAFE is available for download at https://github.com/BiostatQian/ASAFE CONTACT: qszhang@uw.edu

Supplementary information

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

SUBMITTER: Zhang QS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4937201 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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ASAFE: ancestry-specific allele frequency estimation.

Zhang Qian S QS Browning Brian L BL Browning Sharon R SR

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20160503 14

<h4>Unlabelled</h4>In a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of an admixed population, such as Hispanic Americans, ancestry-specific allele frequencies can inform the design of a replication GWAS. We derive an EM algorithm to estimate ancestry-specific allele frequencies for a bi-allelic marker given genotypes and local ancestries on a 3-way admixed population, when the phase of each admixed individual's genotype relative to the pair of local ancestries is unknown. We call our algorithm Ancestry ...[more]

PMID: 27153656

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