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Reference-based phasing using the Haplotype Reference Consortium panel

2016; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 48; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/ng.3679

1546-1718

Po−Ru Loh, Petr Danecek, Pier Francesco Palamara, Christian Fuchsberger, Yakir Reshef, Hilary K. Finucane, Sebastian Schoenherr, Lukas Forer, Shane McCarthy, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Richard Durbin, Alkes L. Price,

Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Haplotype phasing is a fundamental problem in medical and population genetics. Phasing is generally performed via statistical phasing in a genotyped cohort, an approach that can yield high accuracy in very large cohorts but attains lower accuracy in smaller cohorts. Here we instead explore the paradigm of reference-based phasing. We introduce a new phasing algorithm, Eagle2, that attains high accuracy across a broad range of cohort sizes by efficiently leveraging information from large external reference panels (such as the Haplotype Reference Consortium; HRC) using a new data structure based on the positional Burrows-Wheeler transform. We demonstrate that Eagle2 attains a ∼20× speedup and ∼10% increase in accuracy compared to reference-based phasing using SHAPEIT2. On European-ancestry samples, Eagle2 with the HRC panel achieves >2× the accuracy of 1000 Genomes-based phasing. Eagle2 is open source and freely available for HRC-based phasing via the Sanger Imputation Service and the Michigan Imputation Server.