Scaling probabilistic models of genetic variation to millions of humans

A major goal of population genetics is to quantitatively understand variation of genetic polymorphisms among individuals. The aggregated number of genotyped humans is currently on the order of millions of individuals, and existing methods do not scale to data of this size. To solve this problem, we developed TeraStructure, an algorithm to fit Bayesian models of genetic variation in structured human populations on tera-sample-sized data sets (1012 observed genotypes; for example, 1 million individuals at 1 million SNPs). TeraStructure is a scalable approach to Bayesian inference in which subsamples of markers are used to update an estimate of the latent population structure among individuals. We demonstrate that TeraStructure performs as well as existing methods on current globally sampled data, and we show using simulations that TeraStructure continues to be accurate and is the only method that can scale to tera-sample sizes.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:48

Enthalten in:

Nature genetics - 48(2016), 12 vom: 07. Dez., Seite 1587-1590

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gopalan, Prem [VerfasserIn]
Hao, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Blei, David M [VerfasserIn]
Storey, John D [VerfasserIn]

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Genetic Markers
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

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Date Completed 07.09.2017

Date Revised 15.01.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/ng.3710

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM265978327