diCal-IBD: demography-aware inference of identity-by-descent tracts in unrelated individuals

Paula Tataru, Jasmine A Nirody, Yun S Song

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Abstract

Summary: We present a tool, diCal-IBD, for detecting identity-bydescent (IBD) tracts between pairs of genomic sequences. Our method builds on a recent demographic inference method based on the coalescent with recombination, and is able to incorporate demographic information as a prior. Simulation study shows that diCal-IBD has significantly higher recall and precision than that of existing SNP-based IBD detection methods, while retaining reasonable accuracy for IBD tracts as small as 0.1 cM.
Availability: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dical-ibd
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Original languageEnglish
JournalBioinformatics
Volume30
Issue23
Pages (from-to) 3430-3431
Number of pages2
ISSN1367-4803
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Aug 2014

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