Title
FamPipe: An Automatic Analysis Pipeline for Analyzing Sequencing Data in Families for Disease Studies.
Abstract
In disease studies, family-based designs have become an attractive approach to analyzing next-generation sequencing (NGS) data for the identification of rare mutations enriched in families. Substantial research effort has been devoted to developing pipelines for automating sequence alignment, variant calling, and annotation. However, fewer pipelines have been designed specifically for disease studies. Most of the current analysis pipelines for family-based disease studies using NGS data focus on a specific function, such as identifying variants with Mendelian inheritance or identifying shared chromosomal regions among affected family members. Consequently, some other useful family-based analysis tools, such as imputation, linkage, and association tools, have yet to be integrated and automated. We developed FamPipe, a comprehensive analysis pipeline, which includes several family-specific analysis modules, including the identification of shared chromosomal regions among affected family members, prioritizing variants assuming a disease model, imputation of untyped variants, and linkage and association tests. We used simulation studies to compare properties of some modules implemented in FamPipe, and based on the results, we provided suggestions for the selection of modules to achieve an optimal analysis strategy. The pipeline is under the GNU GPL License and can be downloaded for free at http://fampipe.sourceforge.net.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004980
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Field
DocType
Volume
Disease,Annotation,Biology,Mendelian inheritance,Genome-wide association study,Genetic linkage,Software,DNA sequencing,Bioinformatics,Imputation (statistics),Genetics
Journal
12
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
1553-7358
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ren-Hua Chung1193.18
Wei-Yun Tsai200.34
Chen-Yu Kang300.34
Po-Ju Yao410.73
Hui-Ju Tsai500.34
Chia-Hsiang Chen6164.68