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| Title: | Information on ancestry from genetic markers |
| Authors: | Pfaff, Carrie Lynn
Barnholtz-Sloan, Jill
Wagner, Jennifer K.
Long, Jeffrey C. |
| Issue Date: | May-2004 |
| Publisher: | Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company |
| Citation: | Pfaff, Carrie Lynn; Barnholtz-Sloan, Jill; Wagner, Jennifer K.; Long, Jeffrey C. (2004)."Information on ancestry from genetic markers." Genetic Epidemiology 26(4): 305-315. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/34936> |
| Abstract: | It is possible to estimate the proportionate contributions of ancestral populations to admixed individuals or populations using genetic markers, but different loci and alleles vary considerably in the amount of information that they provide. Conventionally, the allele frequency difference between parental populations (δ) has been used as the criterion to select informative markers. However, it is unclear how to use δ for multiallelic loci, or populations formed by the mixture of more than two groups. Moreover, several other factors, including the actual ancestral proportions and the relative genetic diversities of the parental populations, affect the information provided by genetic markers. We demonstrate here that using δ as the sole criterion for marker selection is inadequate, and we propose, instead, to use Fisher's information, which is the inverse of the variance of the estimated ancestral contributions. This measure is superior because it is directly related to the precision of ancestry estimates. Although δ is related to Fisher's information, the relationship is neither linear nor simple, and the information can vary widely for markers with identical δs. Fortunately, Fisher's information is easily computed and formally extends to the situation of multiple alleles and/or parental populations. We examined the distribution of information for SNP and microsatellite loci available in the public domain for a variety of model admixed populations. The information, on average, is higher for microsatellite loci, but exceptional SNPs exceed the best microsatellites. Despite the large number of genetic markers that have been identified for admixture analysis, it appears that information for estimating admixture proportions is limited, and estimates will typically have wide confidence intervals. © 2004 Wiley-Liss,Inc. |
| URI: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db
=pubmed&list_uids=15095390&dopt=citation |
| ISSN: | 0741-0395
1098-2272 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/gepi.10319 |
| PMID: | 15095390 |
| Appears in Collections: | Anthropology, Department of
Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed
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