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Estimating recombination rates from single-nucleotide polymorphisms using summary statistics

Badri Padhukasahasram et al. Genetics. 2006 Nov.

Abstract

We describe a novel method for jointly estimating crossing-over and gene-conversion rates from population genetic data using summary statistics. The performance of our method was tested on simulated data sets and compared with the composite-likelihood method of R. R. Hudson. For several realistic parameter values, the new method performed similarly to the composite-likelihood approach for estimating crossing-over rates and better when estimating gene-conversion rates. We used our method to analyze a human data set recently genotyped by Perlegen Sciences.

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Figure 1.—

Recombination rate estimates for 50-kb overlapping windows across a 50-Mb region in chromosome 1. (Top) The population gene-conversion rates and (bottom) the population crossing-over rates, estimated under a model with uniform recombination for a mean conversion tract length (L) of 500 bp. The shaded bars represent confidence intervals with at least 90% of the total mass and are constructed around the estimated values at positions corresponding to the centers of the windows.

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Figure 1.—

Recombination rate estimates for 50-kb overlapping windows across a 50-Mb region in chromosome 1. (Top) The population gene-conversion rates and (bottom) the population crossing-over rates, estimated under a model with uniform recombination for a mean conversion tract length (L) of 500 bp. The shaded bars represent confidence intervals with at least 90% of the total mass and are constructed around the estimated values at positions corresponding to the centers of the windows.

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Figure 2.—

Comparison of recombination rates estimated from population genetic data using the summary statistics method with those obtained from human genetic maps (data from K

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et al. 2002 used in M

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et al. 2005). A scatter plot is shown of the estimates of population-scaled crossing-over rate with the deCODE pedigree-based estimates (centimorgans per megabase) for 5-Mb regions across the human genome. The correlation coefficient between these estimates is 0.9181.

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Figure 3.—

Crossing-over estimates in a 3.3-Mb MHC region in human chromosome 6. The red curve shows estimates (centimorgans per megabase) obtained in M

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et al. (2005) using the M

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et al. (2004) method. The blue curve shows sliding-window population crossing-over estimates (multiplied by some constant) for overlapping 50-kb regions along chromosome 6 obtained using the summary statistics method.

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