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A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

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the Haplotype Reference Consortium·2016·Nature Genetics

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We describe a reference panel of 64,976 human haplotypes at 39,235,157 SNPs constructed using whole-genome sequence data from 20 studies of predominantly European ancestry. Using this resource leads to accurate genotype imputation at minor allele frequencies as low as 0.1% and a large increase in the number of SNPs tested in association studies, and it can help to discover and refine causal loci. We describe remote server resources that allow researchers to carry out imputation and phasing consistently and efficiently.

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  • Imputation reference panels share the same study biases as in GWAS, creating challenges for imputing sites that are rare in European populations but common elsewhere when the catalog of non-European haplotypes is substantially smaller.

    “Furthermore, imputation reference panels share the same study biases as in GWAS41, creating challenges for imputing sites that are rare in European populations but common elsewhere when the catalog of non-European haplotypes is substantially smaller.”

    From Clinical use of current polygenic risk scores may exacerbate health disparities (2019) · cites this paper as [41]

    The Abstract (page not provided) says the HRC panel draws mainly on studies of predominantly European ancestry and proposes increasing its ethnic diversity. It also links larger, more diverse panels to better imputation accuracy. Online Methods > Site filtering (page not provided) notes variants frequent in non-European populations that were called only in 1000 Genomes. The paper does not explicitly establish that reference panels share GWAS study biases or assess the claimed imputation difficulty for variants rare in Europeans but common elsewhere. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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  • Increased access to exome and whole-genome sequence data has extended discovery to low-frequency and rare alleles previously inaccessible to GWAS, through direct association and imputation.

    “Recently, increased access to exome and whole-genome sequence data has, through both direct association analysis45,46 and imputation3,4, extended discovery to low-frequency and rare alleles previously inaccessible to GWAS.”

    From A brief history of human disease genetics (2020) · cites this paper as [4]

  • For common variants underlying the bulk of complex-disease risk, resolution of association mapping is often limited by the haplotype structure of the human genome.

    “For the common variants that underlie the bulk of complex-disease risk, the resolution of association mapping is often limited by the haplotype structure of the human genome2–4.”

    From A brief history of human disease genetics (2020) · cites this paper as [4]

  • The principal benefit to date of whole-genome sequence data to genetic discovery has been to bolster array-based access to lower-frequency alleles, directly through inclusion on genotyping platforms or indirectly through imputation from sequence-based reference samples.

    “However, the principal benefit to date of whole-genome sequence data to genetic discovery has been to bolster array-based access to lower-frequency alleles, either directly, through their inclusion on genotyping platforms, or indirectly, through imputation from sequence-based reference samples3,4.”

    From A brief history of human disease genetics (2020) · cites this paper as [4]

  • In the 406 GWAS loci, 4% of sentinel variants were nonsynonymous, representing significant enrichment (p=2.5×10−10; 0.4% of variants with MAF>0.1% in the imputation panel were nonsynonymous).

    “In the 406 GWAS loci, 4% of sentinel variants were nonsynonymous, representing a significant enrichment (p=2.5×10−10; 0.4% of variants with MAF>0.1% in the imputation panel41 were nonsynonymous).”

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Authors
the Haplotype Reference Consortium
Venue
Nature Genetics
Published
2016-08-22
Volume
48
Issue
10
Pages
1279-1283
ISSN
  • 1061-4036 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-1718
OpenAlex
W2511515754
Cited by
2,836
References
24
Citations by year
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FWCI
180.42
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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Funders
  • Wellcome Trust (UK10K, WT 098051, 202802/Z/16/Z, WT097307, WT091310, WT090851)
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research (NF-SI-0611-10099, NF-SI-0611-10219)
  • British Heart Foundation (SP/04/002)
  • Versus Arthritis
  • National Institutes of Health (n01ey50007-15-0-1, HHSN268201100004C, n01mh80001-12-0-0, HHSN268201100001C, HHSN268201100002C, 5rc2dk088389-02, HHSN268201100003C)
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (172013_1)
  • Medical Research Council (MR/J00314X/1, MC_PC_15018)
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01AA009367)
  • National Institute on Aging (HHSN-271-2011-00004C,, U19AG023122)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HHSN268201300050C, R01HL127564, HHSN268201300046C, U01HL117626, HHSN268201300048C, HHSN268201300049C, HHSN268201100046C, R01HL102830, HHSN268201300047C, R01HL117626, R01HL109946)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (U01MH105641, R01MH090937, R01MH101820, U01MH105653, R01MH085548, R01MH104964, R01MH094145, N01 MH080001)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA037904, R01DA024417, R01DA005147, R01DA036216)
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (U01HG005773, R01HG000376, R01HG007022)
  • National Eye Institute (N01-EY-5-0007, ZIAEY000546, P30EY001583)
  • National Cancer Institute (P50CA127003, R01CA151993, R01CA137178, R01CA059045, U01CA164930, U01CA137088, P01CA055075, UM1CA167552)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM007753)
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (U01DK085526, U01DK085501, R01DK072193, U01DK062370, RC2-DK088389, U01DK085545, R01DK073541, K24DK080140, K99DK092251, R01DK098032, U54DK083912, R01DK093757, P30DK020595)
  • FP7 Ideas: European Research Council (617306)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Forensic and Genetic Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Keywords
genotype imputation, haplotype reference panel, whole genome sequencing, European ancestry, phasing, association studies
MeSH terms
Alleles, Genetic Techniques, Genotype, Haplotypes, Humans, Reference Values, Internet, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genome-Wide Association Study

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