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SNP Calling, Genotype Calling, and Sample Allele Frequency Estimation from New-Generation Sequencing Data
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We present a statistical framework for estimation and application of sample allele frequency spectra from New-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. In this method, we first estimate the allele frequency spectrum using maximum likelihood. In contrast to previous methods, the likelihood function is calculated using a dynamic programming algorithm and numerically optimized using analytical derivatives. We then use a bayesian method for estimating the sample allele frequency in a single site, and show how the method can be used for genotype calling and SNP calling. We also show how the method can be extended to various other cases including cases with deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. We evaluate the statistical properties of the methods using simulations and by application to a real data set.
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“The direct estimation approach infers the maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) of the SFS by an EM algorithm (Li, 2011) or a Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno (BFGS) algorithm (Nielsen et al. , 2012), assuming independence across all individuals and sites.”
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“This SNP calling scheme performs worse than those Bayesian methods (such as, Li 2011; Nielsen et al. 2012), but is computationally inexpensive and works for large sample data in our case.”
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50,000 years of ice and seals: Impacts of the Last Glacial Maximum on Antarctic fur seals
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“Site frequency spectra (SFS) for each colony alone, for all possible pairs of colonies, and for all colonies together were calculated from the genotype likelihoods in RealSFS, as implemented in ANGSD (Korneliussen et al., 2014; Nielsen et al., 2012).”
MethodCavill, E. L., Gopalakrishnan, S., Puetz, L., Ribeiro, Â. M., Mak, S. S. T., da Fonseca, R. R., Pacheco, G., Dunlop, B., Accouche, W., Shah, N. J., et al. (2021) · Ibis · doi:10.1111/ibi.13023 · Cited by 9
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“The realSFS application (Nielsen et al., 2012 ) in ANGSD (Korneliussen et al., 2014) was used to calculate the weighted F ST values between pairwise locations and between the found genetic cluster (Fumagalli et al., 2013).”
MethodHofmeister, N. R., Stuart, K. C., Warren, W. C., Werner, S. J., Melissa Bateson, B., Ball, G. F., Buchanan, K. L., Burt, D. W., Cardilini, A. P. A., Cassey, P., et al. (2021) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2021.05.19.442026 · Cited by 9
Ecological disturbance reduces genomic diversity across an Alpine whitefish adaptive radiation
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“To do this, the folded site allele frequency likelihood for each species and each sampling timepoint separately ( N = 5–13; see Table S2) was calculated in angsd (0.925) (Korneliussen et al., 2014 ; Nielsen et al., 2012).”
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“Allele frequencies for the selection scan were estimated directly from the site allele frequency likelihoods based on individual genotype likelihoods assuming HWE (80) in ANGSD.”
MethodMcCarthy, M. L., Refoyo-Martínez, A., Ferguson, S. H., Rosing‐Asvid, A., Dietz, R., Cahsan, B. D., Schreiber, L., Lorenzen, E. D., Hansen, R. G., Stimmelmayr, R., et al. (2025) · Molecular Ecology · doi:10.1111/mec.17643 · Cited by 8
“In addition, we estimated pair-wise F ST values to quantify the genomic differentiation between population pairings using the population pairwise 2D-SFS calculated with realSFS (Nielsen et al. 2012) and implemented in ANGSD for sites retained in the Global dataset.”
The genetics of adaptation in freshwater Eurasian shad (Alosa)
Sabatino, S. J., Pereira, P., Carneiro, M., Dilytė, J., Archer, J. P., Muñoz‐Mérida, A., Marzano, F. N., & Murias, A. (2022) · Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.1002/ece3.8908 · Cited by 8
“Bias in our estimation of rare alleles, which can occur using pool- seq data (Nielsen et al., 2012), may also have contributed to low estimates of Tajima's D. Tajima's D were significantly lower in outlier regions in A. f. lacustris, A. f. killarnensis, and A. macedonica, but not in A. alosa except…”
BackgroundIdentifying distant relatives using benchtop-scale sequencing
Woerner, A. E., Novroski, N. M. M., Mandape, S. N., King, J. L., Crysup, B., & Coble, M. D. (2023) · Forensic Science International Genetics · doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2023.103005 · Cited by 8
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“…of, for example, reduced representation sequencing (Davey et al. 2011) or low-depth whole genome sequencing data, along with substantial improvements in the methods available to analyze them (Nielsen et al. 2012; Korneliussen et al. 2013; Fumagalli et al. 2014), this is now becoming feasible.”
Self-citationThe genetic impact of an Ebola outbreak on a wild gorilla population
Fontsere, C., Frandsen, P., Hernández-Rodríguez, J., Niemann, J., Scharff‐Olsen, C. H., Vallet, D., Gouar, P. L., Ménard, N., Navarro, A., SIEGISMUND, H. R., et al. (2021) · BMC Genomics · doi:10.1186/s12864-021-08025-y · Cited by 8
“To assess global levels of heterozygosity, the unfolded SFS was calculated for each 405 sample separately, including thirteen gorilla whole-genomes representative of all gorilla 406 subspecies [29, 30], using ANGSD [31] and realSFS [72] only in the target space with the 407”
MethodKowal, K., Tkaczyk‐Wlizło, A., Jusiak, M., Grzybowska‐Szatkowska, L., & Ślaska, B. (2023) · Journal of Applied Genetics · doi:10.1007/s13353-023-00764-w · Cited by 8
“With this exponential growth of sequence data, rich biological data analytics applications, such as sequence alignment (including short read alignment), genome assembly, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) detection, and genome-wide association study (GWAS) are developed and studied.”
BackgroundInfluentialPreckler‐Quisquater, S., Kierepka, E. M., Reding, D. M., Piaggio, A. J., & Sacks, B. N. (2023) · Molecular Ecology · doi:10.1111/mec.17105 · Cited by 7
“We used ANGSD to generate a full SNP dataset, removing bad reads (- remove_bads 1) and those that aligned to multiple regions in the genome (- uniqueOnly 1).”
MethodInfluentialArro, J., Park, J., Wai, C. M., VanBuren, R., Pan, Y., Nagai, C., da Silva, J. A., & Ming, R. (2016) · Euphytica · doi:10.1007/s10681-016-1672-8 · Cited by 8
“To further assess the nature of selection based on the relative proportion of rare and common alleles relative to neutrality, patterns of the site frequency spectrum (SFS) (Ronen et al. 2013) were evaluated for each species using ANGSD (Nielsen et al. 2012).”
MethodFinding Hybrid Incompatibilities Using Genome Sequences from Hybrid Populations
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“We recommend incorporating uncertainty in variant calling when building the SFS from sequencing reads (Nielsen et al. 2012) before applying our approach.”
MethodGenomic variation in captive deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) populations
Lucius, M. D., Ji, H., Altomare, D., Doran, R., Torkian, B., Havighorst, A., Kaza, V., Zhang, Y., Gasparian, A. V., Magagnoli, J., et al. (2021) · BMC Genomics · doi:10.1186/s12864-021-07956-w · Cited by 7
“The methods used to calculate the thetas were done according to ANGSD’s website page on Thetas, Tajima, and Neutrality tests (http://www.popgen.dk/angsd/index.php/Thetas,Tajima,Neutrality_tests) (36 , 37).”
Lucas‐Lledó, J. I., Vicente-Salvador, D., Aguado, C., & Cáceres, M. (2014) · BMC Bioinformatics · doi:10.1186/1471-2105-15-163 · Cited by 7
“…be used to obtain unbiased estimates of allele frequencies or site-frequency spectra, and likelihood-ratio tests can be used to address population-level hypotheses, such as Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, population differentiation, linkage disequilibrium, genotype-phenotype association, etc [24,25].”
van der Zee, J. P., Christianen, M. J. A., Bérubé, M., Nava, M. I., van der Wal, S., Berkel, J., Bervoets, T., zu Schlochtern, M. P. M., Becking, L. E., & Palsbøll, P. J. (2021) · Molecular Ecology · doi:10.1111/mec.16302 · Cited by 6
“The folded site frequency spectrum (SFS) was estimated from genotype likelihoods (Nielsen et al., 2012) using angsd version 0.925 (Korneliussen et al., 2014).”
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Mas-Sandoval, À., Pope, N. S., Nielsen, K. N., Altinkaya, I., Fumagalli, M., & Korneliussen, T. S. (2022) · GigaScience · doi:10.1093/gigascience/giac032 · Cited by 7
“To solve this issue, statistical methods that compute a probability measure for each of the possible genotypes (the genotype likelihoods) and integrate over these probabilities in the downstream analyses have been proposed [5].”
Self-citationMiller, E. F., Leonardi, M., Xue, Z., Beyer, R. M., Krapp, M., Somveille, M., Somma, G. L., Delser, P. M., & Manica, A. (2021) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2021.05.10.443405 · Cited by 7
“These ANGSD genotype likelihood values were then used as input for NGSadmix to calculate population admixture, setting a K (presumed cluster number) value of 2 and keeping minimum informative individuals at 100.”
MethodInfluentialModeling Biases from Low-Pass Genome Sequencing to Enable Accurate Population Genetic Inferences
da Fonseca, E. M., Tran, L. N., Mendoza, H., & Gutenkunst, R. N. (2025) · Molecular Biology and Evolution · doi:10.1093/molbev/msaf002 · Cited by 6
distAngsd: Fast and Accurate Inference of Genetic Distances for Next-Generation Sequencing Data
Zhao, L., Nielsen, R., & Korneliussen, T. S. (2022) · Molecular Biology and Evolution · doi:10.1093/molbev/msac119 · Cited by 6
“S4 for N) is essentially the same as equation (1) in Korneliussen et al. (2014), which is the two dimensional equivalent of the likelihood function presented in Keightley and Halligan (2011), Li (2011), and Nielsen et al. (2012).”
BackgroundSelf-citationA genotype likelihood function for DNA mixtures
Crysup, B., & Woerner, A. E. (2022) · Forensic Science International Genetics · doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2022.102776 · Cited by 6
Nolen, Z. J., Rundlöf, M., & Runemark, A. (2024) · Biological Conservation · doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110694 · Cited by 9
The genomic origin of early maize in eastern North America
Ramos‐Madrigal, J., Fritz, G. J., Schroeder, B. A., Smith, B. D., Sánchez-Barreiro, F., Carøe, C., Runge, A. K. W., Boer, S., McGrath, K. M., Vieira, F. G., et al. (2024) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2024.11.003 · Cited by 6
Genomic divergence between two sister Ostrya species through linked selection and recombination
Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zheng, Z., Lu, Z., & Yang, Y. P. (2022) · Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.1002/ece3.9611 · Cited by 6
“We also estimated a folded joint site frequency spectrum for the two species with ANGSD v 0.933 (Nielsen et al., 2012), and then used fastsimcoal2 software (Excoffier et al., 2013) to investigate the history of population separation between O. japonica and O. chinensis.”
MethodInfluentialloco-pipe: an automated pipeline for population genomics with low-coverage whole-genome sequencing
Zhou, Z. T., Owens, G. L., Larson, W. A., Lou, R. N., & Sudmant, P. H. (2024) · Bioinformatics Advances · doi:10.1093/bioadv/vbae098 · Cited by 5
“Because individual genotypes cannot be confidently assigned from low sequencing depth, lcWGS relies on a suite of specialized software programs that account for genotype uncertainty using a probabilistic framework (Nielsen et al. 2012, 2011; Korneliussen et al. 2014).”
Lesturgie, P., Laine, H., Suwalski, A., Chifflet‐Belle, P., Delser, P. M., Clua, É., Jaquemet, S., Magalon, H., & Mona, S. (2022) · BMC Ecology and Evolution · doi:10.1186/s12862-022-02100-y · Cited by 9
“We generated pairwise site allele frequency likelihood files and then computed FST with the realSFS program in angsd [57] using SNPs with a minor allele frequency ≥ 0.”
Frey, A., LaCasella, E. L., Jensen, M. P., & Dutton, P. H. (2025) · Frontiers in Marine Science · doi:10.3389/fmars.2025.1581306 · Cited by 5
Genomics of Population Differentiation in Humpback Dolphins,Sousaspp. in the Indo-Pacific Ocean
Amaral, A. R., Chanfana, C., Smith, B. D., Mansur, R. M., Collins, T., Baldwin, R., Minton, G., Parra, G. J., Krützen, M., Jefferson, T. A., et al. (2020) · Journal of Heredity · doi:10.1093/jhered/esaa055 · Cited by 5
Nürnberger, B., Baird, S. J. E., Čížková, D., Bryjová, A., Mudd, A. B., Blaxter, M., & Szymura, J. M. (2021) · G3 Genes Genomes Genetics · doi:10.1093/g3journal/jkab286 · Cited by 6
A 14,000-year-old genome sheds light on the evolution and extinction of a Pleistocene vulture
Ericson, P. G. P., Irestedt, M., Zuccon, D., Larsson, P., Tison, J.-L., Emslie, S. D., Götherström, A., HUME, J. P., Werdelin, L., & Qu, Y. (2022) · Communications Biology · doi:10.1038/s42003-022-03811-0 · Cited by 5
Ordoñez, J. F. F., & Ravago‐Gotanco, R. (2023) · Aquaculture · doi:10.1016/j.aquaculture.2023.740261 · Cited by 5
Hofmeister, N. R., Stuart, K. C., Warren, W. C., Werner, S. J., Melissa Bateson, B., Ball, G. F., Buchanan, K. L., Burt, D. W., Cardilini, A. P. A., Cassey, P., et al. (2023) · Molecular Ecology · doi:10.1111/mec.17195 · Cited by 15
Flow modification associated with reduced genetic health of a river-breeding frog, Rana boyliiPreprint
Peek, R. A., O’Rourke, S. M., & Miller, M. R. (2018) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/316604 · Cited by 5
“Genome-wide F ST between population pairs was estimated by first calculating a site frequency spectrum (SFS) for each population (doSaf) (78) with ANGSD.”
MethodSignatures of selective sweeps in urban and rural white clover populations
Santangelo, J. S., Johnson, M. T. J., & Ness, R. W. (2025) · Evolution · doi:10.1093/evolut/qpaf138 · Cited by 4
Fantastic beasts and how to sequence them: genomic approaches for obscure model organismsPreprint
Matz, M. V. (2017) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/165928 · Cited by 4
Armstrong, E. E., Taylor, R. W., Prost, S., Blinston, P., van der Meer, E., Madzikanda, H., Mufute, O., Mandisodza‐Chikerema, R. L., Stuelpnagel, J., Sillero‐Zubiri, C., et al. (2017) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/195180 · Cited by 4
“First, a genome coverage of 20x is on the lower side of what is needed to reliably call genotypes (Nielsen et al. 2012).”
BackgroundSingle Nucleotide Polymorphism Typing
Srinivasan, S., & Batra, J. (2018) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-809633-8.20127-1 · Cited by 4
The genomic diversity of the Eliurus genus in northern Madagascar with a putative new species
Sgarlata, G. M., Rasolondraibe, E., Salmona, J., Pors, B. L., Ralantoharijaona, T., Rakotonanahary, A. N., Jan, F., Manzi, S., Iribar, A., Zaonarivelo, J. R., et al. (2023) · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107997 · Cited by 5
Linked Selection and Gene Density Shape Genome‐Wide Patterns of Diversification in Peatmosses
Meleshko, O., Martin, M. D., Flatberg, K. I., Stenøien, H. K., Korneliussen, T. S., Szövényi, P., & Hassel, K. (2024) · Evolutionary Applications · doi:10.1111/eva.13767 · Cited by 2
“Using the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm, we optimized and polarized the SAF to obtain an ML estimate of the SFS for each species (Nielsen et al. 2012) and an ML estimate of the pairwise (2D) SFS for each species pair.”
Self-citationKina, T., Hara, M., Hirase, S., & Kikuchi, K. (2024) · Aquaculture Reports · doi:10.1016/j.aqrep.2024.102592 · Cited by 3
Tran, N. T., & Huang, C.-H. (2014) · Gene Regulation and Systems Biology · doi:10.4137/grsb.s13612 · Cited by 3
BATCAVE: calling somatic mutations with a tumor- and site-specific prior
Mannakee, B. K., & Gutenkunst, R. N. (2020) · NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics · doi:10.1093/nargab/lqaa004 · Cited by 2
“Note however, that if the goal were not to best identify individual variants, but rather to best estimate the distribution of variant allele frequencies within the tumor, then a nonuniform frequency prior would be appropriate (58).”
BackgroundEvaluating probabilistic genotyping for low-pass DNA sequencing
Mandape, S. N., Kapema, K. B., Duque, T. M., Smuts, A., King, J. L., Crysup, B., Ge, J., Budowle, B., & Woerner, A. E. (2022) · Forensic science international. Genetics supplement series · doi:10.1016/j.fsigss.2022.10.001 · Cited by 3
Xu, Z. Q., Yan, S., Wu, C., Duan, Q., Chen, S., & Li, Y. (2023) · Mathematics · doi:10.3390/math11112560 · Cited by 2
Self-citationMaciel, F. D. G., O’Rourke, S., Jones, M. L., Hemstrom, W., Miller, M. R., Schmaedecke, G., Tambosi, L. R., Baptista, M. S. P., Keuroghlian, A., Nava, A. F. D., et al. (2024) · Conservation Genetics · doi:10.1007/s10592-024-01614-w · Cited by 3
“…pairs of sequences (Tajima 1983 ), and Watterson’s theta (θ w ), which is based on the number of segregating sites (Watterson 1975), in ANGSD for each chromosome (Korneliussen et al. 2013), using a site frequency spectrum (SFS; Nielsen et al. 2012) estimated in realSFS (Kornelius-sen et al. 2014).”
Optimized variant calling for estimating kinship.
Woerner, A., Mandape, S. N., Kapema, K. B., Duque, T., Smuts, A., King, J., Crysup, B., Wang, X.-W., Huang, M., Ge, J.-Y., et al. (2022) · Forensic Science International: Genetics · doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2022.102785 · Cited by 5
Wang, J., Street, N. R., Scofield, D. G., & Ingvarsson, P. K. (2015) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/029561 · Cited by 3
Self-citationTesting the ‘caves as islands’ model in two cave-obligate invertebrates with a genomic approachPreprint
Balogh, A., Ngo, L., Zigler, K. S., & Dixon, G. (2020) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2020.04.08.032789 · Cited by 3
“6 because they can fail to capture statistical uncertainty inherent to individual genotypes from NewGeneration Sequencing (NGS) data (Nielsen et al. 2012).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialPopulation genomics of the island thrush elucidates one of earth’s great archipelagic radiationsPreprint
Reeve, A. H., Gower, G., Pujolar, J. M., Smith, B. T., Petersen, B., Olsson, U., Haryoko, T., Koane, B., Maiah, G., Blom, M. P. K., et al. (2022) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2022.04.21.488757 · Cited by 3
“Pairwise F ST was calculated from genotype likelihoods using the folded joint (2D) allele frequency spectrum (Nielsen et al. 2012), as implemented in ANGSD (Korneliussen et al. 2014), configured to use the default Reynolds et al. (1983) F ST estimator.”
MethodThe genomic landscape of adaptation to a new host plantPreprint
Steward, R., Nilsson, K. J., Ortega, J., Nolen, Z. J., Yan, C. Y., Huang, Y., Ayala-Lopez, J. A., & Runemark, A. (2023) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2023.04.17.537225 · Cited by 3
“We produced unfolded 1D and 2D site frequency spectra (SFS) for each population and population pair using the SAF files in realSFS (Nielsen et al. 2012).”
MethodHigh standing diversity masks extreme genetic erosion in a declining snakePreprint
Pozzi, A. V., Owens, J. B., Üveges, B., Major, T., Morris, E., Graham, S., Togridou, A., Papadopulos, A., Wüster, W., & Barlow, A. (2023) · bioRxiv · doi:10.1101/2023.09.19.557540 · Cited by 4
Inferring drift, genetic differentiation, and admixture graphs from low-depth sequencing dataPreprint
Rasmussen, M. S., Wiuf, C., & Albrechtsen, A. (2024) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2024.01.29.577762 · Cited by 3
Self-citationWacker, K. S., & Winger, B. M. (2025) · Evolution · doi:10.1093/evolut/qpaf247 · Cited by 2
Rare jackpot individuals drive rapid adaptation in Threespine Stickleback
Kwakye, A., Reid, K., Wund, M. A., Heins, D. C., Bell, M. A., & Veeramah, K. R. (2026) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-026-71236-y · Cited by 4
“Then, we used the -sites option from ANGSD to estimate the SFS for the 0-fold and 4-fold sites.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Nielsen, R., Korneliussen, T., Albrechtsen, A., Li, Y., & Wang, J.
- Affiliations
- BGI Group (China) (CN)
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Corresponding author
- Nielsen, Rasmus
- Wang, Jun
- Venue
- PLoS ONE
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2012-07-24
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- e37558
- ISSN
- 1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3404070
- OpenAlex
- W2005287518
- Cited by
- 424
- References
- 39
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- FWCI
- 9.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Villum Fonden (00007171)
- National Institutes of Health
- National Human Genome Research Institute (R01HG003229)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic diversity and population structure
- Keywords
- allele frequency estimation, allele frequency spectrum, SNP calling, genotype calling, next-generation sequencing, maximum likelihood estimation, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, genetic variation
- MeSH terms
- Algorithms, Bayes Theorem, Computer Simulation, Denmark, Gene Frequency, Genotype, Humans, ROC Curve, Software, Likelihood Functions, Computational Biology, Internet, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, White People, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Exome
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