title: Predicting haplotype carriers from SNP genotypes in Bos taurus through linear discriminant analysis.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  SNP (single nucleotide polymorphisms) genotype data are increasingly available in cattle populations and, among other things, can be used to predict carriers of specific haplotypes. It is therefore convenient to have a practical statistical method for the accurate classification of individuals into carriers and non-carriers. In this paper, we present a procedure combining variable selection (i.e. the selection of predictive SNPs) and linear discriminant analysis for the identification of carriers of a haplotype on BTA19 (Bos taurus autosome 19) known to be associated with reduced cow fertility. A population of 3645 Brown Swiss cows and bulls genotyped with the 54K SNP-chip was available for the analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The overall error rate for the prediction of haplotype carriers was on average very low (∼≤1%). The error rate was found to depend on the number of SNPs in the model and their density around the region of the haplotype on BTA19. The minimum set of SNPs to still achieve accurate predictions was 5, with a total test error rate of 1.59.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The paper describes a procedure to accurately identify haplotype carriers from SNP genotypes in cattle populations. Very few misclassifications were observed, which indicates that this is a very reliable approach for potential applications in cattle breeding.
authors: Stefano
authors: S
authors: Biffani
authors: Corrado
authors: C
authors: Dimauro
authors: Nicolò
authors: N
authors: Macciotta
authors: Attilio
authors: A
authors: Rossoni
authors: Alessandra
authors: A
authors: Stella
authors: Department of Bioinformatics, PTP, Via Einstein - Loc, Cascina Codazza, Lodi 26900, Italy. filippo.biscarini@tecnoparco.org.
authors: Filippo
authors: F
authors: Biscarini
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle / Q000235:genetics*; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D005821:Genetic Techniques; D005838:Genotype; D006239:Haplotypes; D006579:Heterozygote; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci; D012641:Selection, Genetic
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