Handling missing values in population data: consequences for maximum likelihood estimation of haplotype frequencies

European Journal of Human Genetics : EJHG
Pierre-Antoine GourraudAnne Cambon-Thomsen

Abstract

Haplotype frequency estimation in population data is an important problem in genetics and different methods including expectation maximisation (EM) methods have been proposed. The statistical properties of EM methods have been extensively assessed for data sets with no missing values. When numerous markers and/or individuals are tested, however, it is likely that some genotypes will be missing. Thus, it is of interest to investigate the behaviour of the method in the presence of incomplete genotype observations. We propose an extension of the EM method to handle missing genotypes, and we compare it with commonly used methods (such as ignoring individuals with incomplete genotype information or treating a missing allele as any other allele). Simulations were performed, starting from data sets of haematopoietic stem cell donors genotyped at three HLA loci. We deleted some data to create incomplete genotype observations in various proportions. We then compared the haplotype frequencies obtained on these incomplete data sets using the different methods to those obtained on the complete data. We found that the method proposed here provides better estimations, both qualitatively and quantitatively, but increases the computation time ...Continue Reading

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