A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

Shane McCarthy, Sayantan Das, Warren Kretzschmar, Olivier Delaneau, Andrew R Wood, Alexander Teumer, Hyun Min Kang, Christian Fuchsberger, Petr Danecek, Kevin Sharp, Yang Luo, Carlo Sidore, Alan Kwong, Nicholas Timpson, Seppo Koskinen, Scott Vrieze, Laura J Scott, He Zhang, Anubha Mahajan, Jan VeldinkUlrike Peters, Carlos Pato, Cornelia M van Duijn, Christopher E Gillies, Ilaria Gandin, Massimo Mezzavilla, Arthur Gilly, Massimiliano Cocca, Michela Traglia, Andrea Angius, Jeffrey C Barrett, Dorrett Boomsma, Kari Branham, Gerome Breen, Chad M Brummett, Fabio Busonero, Harry Campbell, Andrew Chan, Sai Chen, Emily Chew, Francis S Collins, Laura J Corbin, George Davey Smith, George Dedoussis, Marcus Dorr, Aliki-Eleni Farmaki, Leonard H Van den Berg, Wouter Van Rheenen, Paul I W de Bakker, Annelot Dekker,

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Abstract

We describe a reference panel of 64,976 human haplotypes at 39,235,157 SNPs constructed using whole-genome sequence data from 20 studies of predominantly European ancestry. Using this resource leads to accurate genotype imputation at minor allele frequencies as low as 0.1% and a large increase in the number of SNPs tested in association studies, and it can help to discover and refine causal loci. We describe remote server resources that allow researchers to carry out imputation and phasing consistently and efficiently.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1279–1283
JournalNature Genetics
Volume48
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Aug 2016

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