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Analysis and exploration of the use of rule-based algorithms and consensus methods for the inferral of haplotypes.

ABSTRACT: The difficulty of experimental determination of haplotypes from phase-unknown genotypes has stimulated the development of nonexperimental inferral methods. One well-known approach for a group of unrelated individuals involves using the trivially deducible haplotypes (those found in individuals with zero or one heterozygous sites) and a set of rules to infer the haplotypes underlying ambiguous genotypes (those with two or more heterozygous sites). Neither the manner in which this "rule-based" approach should be implemented nor the accuracy of this approach has been adequately assessed. We implemented eight variations of this approach that differed in how a reference list of haplotypes was derived and in the rules for the analysis of ambiguous genotypes. We assessed the accuracy of these variations by comparing predicted and experimentally determined haplotypes involving nine polymorphic sites in the human apolipoprotein E (APOE) locus. The eight variations resulted in substantial differences in the average number of correctly inferred haplotype pairs. More than one set of inferred haplotype pairs was found for each of the variations we analyzed, implying that the rule-based approach is not sufficient by itself for haplotype inferral, despite its appealing simplicity. Accordingly, we explored consensus methods in which multiple inferrals for a given ambiguous genotype are combined to generate a single inferral; we show that the set of these "consensus" inferrals for all ambiguous genotypes is more accurate than the typical single set of inferrals chosen at random. We also use a consensus prediction to divide ambiguous genotypes into those whose algorithmic inferral is certain or almost certain and those whose less certain inferral makes molecular inferral preferable.

SUBMITTER: Orzack SH

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1462785 | biostudies-other | 2003 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Analysis and exploration of the use of rule-based algorithms and consensus methods for the inferral of haplotypes.

Orzack Steven Hecht SH Gusfield Daniel D Olson Jeffrey J Nesbitt Steven S Subrahmanyan Lakshman L Stanton Vincent P VP

Genetics 20031001 2

The difficulty of experimental determination of haplotypes from phase-unknown genotypes has stimulated the development of nonexperimental inferral methods. One well-known approach for a group of unrelated individuals involves using the trivially deducible haplotypes (those found in individuals with zero or one heterozygous sites) and a set of rules to infer the haplotypes underlying ambiguous genotypes (those with two or more heterozygous sites). Neither the manner in which this "rule-based" app ...[more]

PMID: 14573498

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Analysis and exploration of the use of rule-based algorithms and consensus methods for the inferral of haplotypes.

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Analysis and exploration of the use of rule-based algorithms and consensus methods for the inferral of haplotypes.

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