On combining reference data to improve imputation accuracy.

Genotype imputation is an important tool in human genetics studies, which uses reference sets with known genotypes and prior knowledge on linkage disequilibrium and recombination rates to infer un-typed alleles for human genetic variations at a low cost. The reference sets used by current imputation...

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Main Authors: Jun Chen, Ji-Gang Zhang, Jian Li, Yu-Fang Pei, Hong-Wen Deng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3559437?pdf=render