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BMC BIOINFORMATICS
卷 8, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
BIOMED CENTRAL LTD
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-8-428
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- MRC [G0600705] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0600705] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0600705] Funding Source: Medline
Background: The frequency of a haplotype comprising one allele at each of two loci can be expressed as a cubic equation (the 'Hill equation'), the solution of which gives that frequency. Most haplotype and linkage disequilibrium analysis programs use iteration-based algorithms which substitute an estimate of haplotype frequency into the equation, producing a new estimate which is repeatedly fed back into the equation until the values converge to a maximum likelihood estimate (expectation-maximisation). Results: We present a program, CubeX, which calculates the biologically possible exact solution(s) and provides estimated haplotype frequencies, D', r(2) and X(2) values for each. CubeX provides a complete analysis of haplotype frequencies and linkage disequilibrium for a pair of biallelic markers under situations where sampling variation and genotyping errors distort sample Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, potentially causing more than one biologically possible solution. We also present an analysis of simulations and real data using the algebraically exact solution, which indicates that under perfect sample Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium there is only one biologically possible solution, but that under other conditions there may be more. Conclusion: Our analyses demonstrate that lower allele frequencies, lower sample numbers, population stratification and a possible vertical bar D'vertical bar value of 1 are particularly susceptible to distortion of sample Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, which has significant implications for calculation of linkage disequilibrium in small sample sizes (eg HapMap) and rarer alleles (eg paucimorphisms, q < 0.05) that may have particular disease relevance and require improved approaches for meaningful evaluation.
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