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Methods that can accurately estimate haplotypes from single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotype data are important because they are widely used in many areas of genetic analysis. Examples include the creation of haplotype reference panels, pre-phasing1 before genotype imputation in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), and population genetic analysis. The task is an inverse problem in which we observe a set of SNP genotypes in a sample, typically using a genome-wide SNP microarray, and wish to infer the underlying haplotypes carried by the study individuals.

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J.M. and O.D. acknowledge support from the Medical Research Council (G0801823). O.D. acknowledges support from Peptinov SAS (France). Thanks to B. Howie, C. Churchhouse and J. O'Connell for comments on this paper and to A. Cox (Illumina Cambridge Ltd) for providing the high-coverage trio sequence data set. The Vietnamese cohort was provided by A. Alcais (Institut National de la Santé de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France) and E. Schurr (McGill Centre for the Study of Host Resistance, Montreal, Canada). This study uses data from the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium.

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  1. Jean-Francois Zagury and Jonathan Marchini: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Olivier Delaneau & Jonathan Marchini
  2. Chaire de Bioinformatique, Laboratoire Génomique, Bioinformatique, et Applications (EA 4627), Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France
    Jean-Francois Zagury
  3. Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Jonathan Marchini

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Delaneau, O., Zagury, JF. & Marchini, J. Improved whole-chromosome phasing for disease and population genetic studies.Nat Methods 10, 5–6 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2307

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