title: GARLIC: Genomic Autozygosity Regions Likelihood-based Inference and Classification.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  Runs of homozygosity (ROH) are important genomic features that manifest when identical-by-descent haplotypes are inherited from parents. Their length distributions and genomic locations are informative about population history and they are useful for mapping recessive loci contributing to both Mendelian and complex disease risk. Here, we present software implementing a model-based method ( Pemberton et al., 2012 ) for inferring ROH in genome-wide SNP datasets that incorporates population-specific parameters and a genotyping error rate as well as provides a length-based classification module to identify biologically interesting classes of ROH. Using simulations, we evaluate the performance of this method.
  
  
  METHODS
  GARLIC is written in C ++. Source code and pre-compiled binaries (Windows, OSX and Linux) are hosted on GitHub ( https://github.com/szpiech/garlic ) under the GNU General Public License version 3.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  zachary.szpiech@ucsf.edu.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
authors.forename: Zachary A
authors.initials: ZA
authors.lastname: Szpiech
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9, Canada.
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Blant
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9, Canada.
authors.forename: Trevor J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Pemberton
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D006239:Haplotypes; D006720:Homozygote; D006801:Humans; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software