title: GIGI: an approach to effective imputation of dense genotypes on large pedigrees.
abstract: Recent emergence of the common-disease-rare-variant hypothesis has renewed interest in the use of large pedigrees for identifying rare causal variants. Genotyping with modern sequencing platforms is increasingly common in the search for such variants but remains expensive and often is limited to only a few subjects per pedigree. In population-based samples, genotype imputation is widely used so that additional genotyping is not needed. We now introduce an analogous approach that enables computationally efficient imputation in large pedigrees. Our approach samples inheritance vectors (IVs) from a Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampler by conditioning on genotypes from a sparse set of framework markers. Missing genotypes are probabilistically inferred from these IVs along with observed dense genotypes that are available on a subset of subjects. We implemented our approach in the Genotype Imputation Given Inheritance (GIGI) program and evaluated the approach on both simulated and real large pedigrees. With a real pedigree, we also compared imputed results obtained from this approach with those from the population-based imputation program BEAGLE. We demonstrated that our pedigree-based approach imputes many alleles with high accuracy. It is much more accurate for calling rare alleles than is population-based imputation and does not require an outside reference sample. We also evaluated the effect of varying other parameters, including the marker type and density of the framework panel, threshold for calling genotypes, and population allele frequencies. By leveraging information from existing genotypes already assayed on large pedigrees, our approach can facilitate cost-effective use of sequence data in the pursuit of rare causal variants.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
authors.forename: Charles Y K
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Cheung
authors.forename: Elizabeth A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: Ellen M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Wijsman
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D005260:Female; D005787:Gene Frequency; D015894:Genome, Human; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008390:Markov Chains; D008957:Models, Genetic; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D010375:Pedigree; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / Q000235:genetics*
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