Assignment of chromosomal locations forunassigned SNPs/scaffolds based on pair-wiselinkage disequilibrium estimates.

Autor: Khatkar, Mehar S., Hobbs, Matthew, Neuditschko, Markus, Sölkner, Johann, Nicholas, Frank W., Raadsma, Herman W.
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Zdroj: BMC Bioinformatics; 2010, Vol. 11, p171-183, 13p
Abstrakt: Background: Recent developments of high-density SNP chips across a number of species require accurate genetic maps. Despite rapid advances in genome sequence assembly and availability of a number of tools for creating genetic maps, the exact genome location for a number of SNPs from these SNP chips still remains unknown. We have developed a locus ordering procedure based on linkage disequilibrium (LODE) which provides estimation of the chromosomal positions of unaligned SNPs and scaffolds. It also provides an alternative means for verification of genetic maps. We exemplified LODE in cattle. Results: The utility of the LODE procedure was demonstrated using data from 1,943 bulls genotyped for 73,569 SNPs across three different SNP chips. First, the utility of the procedure was tested by analysing the masked positions of 1,500 randomly-chosen SNPs with known locations (50 from each chromosome), representing three classes of minor allele frequencies (MAF), namely >0.05, 0.010.05), for validating and checking the quality of a genome assembly, and offers a means for positioning of unordered scaffolds containing SNPs. The LODE procedure will be helpful in refining genome sequence assemblies, especially those being created from next-generation sequencing where high-throughput SNP discovery and genotyping platforms are integrated components of genome analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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