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The choice of genotyping families vs unrelated individuals is a critical factor in any large-scale linkage disequilibrium (LD) study. The use of unrelated individuals for such studies is promising, but in contrast to family designs, unrelated samples do not facilitate detection of genotyping errors, which have been shown to be of great importance for LD and linkage studies and may be even more important in genotyping collaborations across laboratories. Here we employ some of the most commonly-used analysis methods to examine the relative accuracy of haplotype estimation using families vs unrelateds in the presence of genotyping error. The results suggest that even slight amounts of genotyping error can significantly decrease haplotype frequency and reconstruction accuracy, that the ability to detect such errors in large families is essential when the number/complexity of haplotypes is high (low LD/common alleles). In contrast, in situations of low haplotype complexity (high LD and/or many rare alleles) unrelated individuals offer such a high degree of accuracy that there is little reason for less efficient family designs. Moreover, parent-child trios, which comprise the most popular family design and the most efficient in terms of the number of founder chromosomes per genotype but which contain little information for error detection, offer little or no gain over unrelated samples in nearly all cases, and thus do not seem a useful sampling compromise between unrelated individuals and large families. The implications of these results are discussed in the context of large-scale LD mapping projects such as the proposed genome-wide haplotype map.
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This research project was supported by a Wellcome Trust Travel Award to KM Kirk. LR Cardon was supported by a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship and by NIH grant EY-12562. Lander-Green haplotype estimation was conducted using MERLIN29 (http://bioinformatics.well.ox.ac.uk/Merlin/). EM-based estimates were conducted using ldmax in the GOLD package (www.well.ox.ac.uk/asthma/GOLD/)34 and the SNPHAP program kindly provided by Dr David Clayton, Cambridge University (www-gene.cimr.cam.ac.uk/clayton/software/). Haplotype reconstruction using the EM/MCMC method of Stephens et al16 was performed using PHASE (www.stats.ox.ac.uk/mathgen/software.html).
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Kirk, K., Cardon, L. The impact of genotyping error on haplotype reconstruction and frequency estimation. Eur J Hum Genet 10, 616–622 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200855
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