A method for finding single-nucleotide polymorphisms with allele frequencies in sequences of deep coverage.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The allele frequencies of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are needed to select an optimal subset of common SNPs for use in association studies. Sequence-based methods for finding SNPs with allele frequencies may need to handle thousands of sequences from the same genome location (sequences of deep coverage).

Results

We describe a computational method for finding common SNPs with allele frequencies in single-pass sequences of deep coverage. The method enhances a widely used program named PolyBayes in several aspects. We present results from our method and PolyBayes on eighteen data sets of human expressed sequence tags (ESTs) with deep coverage. The results indicate that our method used almost all single-pass sequences in computation of the allele frequencie

SUBMITTER: Wang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1239908 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature