Title
A statistical framework for haplotype block inference.
Abstract
The existence of haplotype blocks transmitted from parents to offspring has been suggested recently. This has created an interest in the inference of the block structure and length. The motivation is that haplotype blocks that are characterized well will make it relatively easier to quickly map all the genes carrying human diseases. To study the inference of haplotype block systematically, we propose a statistical framework. In this framework, the optimal haplotype block partitioning is formulated as the problem of statistical model selection; missing data can be handled in a standard statistical way; population strata can be implemented; block structure inference/hypothesis testing can be performed; prior knowledge, if present, can be incorporated to perform a Bayesian inference. The algorithm is linear in the number of loci, instead of NP-hard for many such algorithms. We illustrate the applications of our method to both simulated and real data sets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1142/S021972000500151X
J. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Keywords
DocType
Volume
likelihood,snp,tag snp
Journal
3
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
0219-7200
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ao Yuan133.25
Guanjie Chen210.69
Charles Rotimi331.15
George E Bonney400.34