PRIMUS: rapid reconstruction of pedigrees from genome-wide estimates of identity by descent

J Staples, D Qiao, MH Cho, EK Silverman… - The American Journal of …, 2014 - cell.com
Understanding and correctly utilizing relatedness among samples is essential for genetic
analysis; however, managing sample records and pedigrees can often be error prone and …

Discovering genes involved in disease and the mystery of missing heritability

E Eskin - Communications of the ACM, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Discovering genes involved in disease and the mystery of missing heritability Page 1 80
COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | OCTOBER 2015 | VOL. 58 | NO. 10 review articles DOI:10.1145/2817827 …

A 472-SNP panel for pairwise kinship testing of second-degree relatives

SK Mo, ZL Ren, YR Yang, YC Liu, JJ Zhang… - Forensic Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Kinship testing based on genetic markers, as forensic short tandem repeats (STRs) and
single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), has valuable practical applications. Paternity and …

Composite likelihood method for inferring local pedigrees

A Ko, R Nielsen - PLoS genetics, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Pedigrees contain information about the genealogical relationships among individuals and
are of fundamental importance in many areas of genetic studies. However, pedigrees are …

Ancestral haplotype reconstruction in endogamous populations using identity-by-descent

K Finke, M Kourakos, G Brown, HT Dang… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
In this work we develop a novel algorithm for reconstructing the genomes of ancestral
individuals, given genotype or sequence data from contemporary individuals and an …

Iped2: Inheritance path based pedigree reconstruction algorithm for complicated pedigrees

D He, Z Wang, L Parida, E Eskin - … of the 5th ACM Conference on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Reconstruction of family trees, or pedigree reconstruction, for a group of individuals is a
fundamental problem in genetics. The problem is known to be NP-hard even for datasets …

Kinlinks: Software toolkit for kinship analysis and pedigree generation from hts datasets

A Shcherbina, DO Ricke, E Schwoebel… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability to predict familial relationships from source DNA in multiple samples has a
number of forensic and medical applications. Kinship testing of suspect DNA profiles against …

IBD-Groupon: an efficient method for detecting group-wise identity-by-descent regions simultaneously in multiple individuals based on pairwise IBD relationships

D He - Bioinformatics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Detecting IBD tracts is an important problem in genetics. Most of the existing
methods focus on detecting pairwise IBD tracts, which have relatively low power to detect …

A likelihood ratio-based method to predict exact pedigrees for complex families from next-generation sequencing data

V Heinrich, T Kamphans, S Mundlos… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Next generation sequencing technology considerably changed the way we
screen for pathogenic mutations in rare Mendelian disorders. However, the identification of …

Historical pedigree reconstruction from extant populations using PArtitioning of RElatives (PREPARE)

D Shem-Tov, E Halperin - PLoS computational biology, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Recent technological improvements in the field of genetic data extraction give rise to the
possibility of reconstructing the historical pedigrees of entire populations from the genotypes …