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Population genetic analysis of bi-allelic structural variants from low-coverage
sequence data with an expectation-maximization algorithm
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Lucas-Lledó JI
; Vicente-Salvador D
; Aguado C
; Cáceres M
BMC Bioinformatics
2014[May]; 15
(ä): 163
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BACKGROUND: Population genetics and association studies usually rely on a set of
known variable sites that are then genotyped in subsequent samples, because it is
easier to genotype than to discover the variation. This is also true for
structural variation detected from sequence data. However, the genotypes at known
variable sites can only be inferred with uncertainty from low coverage data.
Thus, statistical approaches that infer genotype likelihoods, test hypotheses,
and estimate population parameters without requiring accurate genotypes are
becoming popular. Unfortunately, the current implementations of these methods are
intended to analyse only single nucleotide and short indel variation, and they
usually assume that the two alleles in a heterozygous individual are sampled with
equal probability. This is generally false for structural variants detected with
paired ends or split reads. Therefore, the population genetics of structural
variants cannot be studied, unless a painstaking and potentially biased
genotyping is performed first. RESULTS: We present svgem, an
expectation-maximization implementation to estimate allele and genotype
frequencies, calculate genotype posterior probabilities, and test for
Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and for population differences, from the numbers of
times the alleles are observed in each individual. Although applicable to single
nucleotide variation, it aims at bi-allelic structural variation of any type,
observed by either split reads or paired ends, with arbitrarily high allele
sampling bias. We test svgem with simulated and real data from the 1000 Genomes
Project. CONCLUSIONS: svgem makes it possible to use low-coverage sequencing data
to study the population distribution of structural variants without having to
know their genotypes. Furthermore, this advance allows the combined analysis of
structural and nucleotide variation within the same genotype-free statistical
framework, thus preventing biases introduced by genotype imputation.