Prediction of multilocus identity-by-descent

William G. Hill, Jules Hernandez-Sanchez, Sara Knott (Group Leader)

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Previous studies have enabled exact prediction of probabilities of identity-by-descent (IBD) in random-mating populations for a few loci (up to four or so), with extension to more using approximate regression methods. Here we present a precise predictor of multiple-locus IBD using simple formulas based on exact results for two loci. In particular, the probability of non-IBD X-ABC., at each of ordered loci A, B, and C can be well approximated by X-ABC = XABXBC/X-B and generalizes to X-123... k = X12X23... X-k-1,X-/Xk-2, where X is the probability of non-IBD at each locus. Predictions from this chain rule are very precise with population bottlenecks and migration, but are rather poorer in the presence of mutation. From these coefficients, the probabilities of multilocus IBD and non-IBD can also be computed for genomic regions as functions of population size, time, and map distances. An approximate but simple recurrence formula is also developed, which generally is less accurate than the chain rule but is more robust with mutation. Used together with the chain rule it leads to explicit equations for non-IBD in a region. The results can be applied to detection of quantitative trait loci (QTL) by computing the probability of IBD at candidate loci in terms of identity-by-state at neighboring markers.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2307-2315
Number of pages9
JournalGenetics
Volume176
Issue number4
Early online date6 May 2007
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2007

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