Genomic tests of variation in inbreeding among individuals and among chromosomes.

ABSTRACT: We examine the distribution of heterozygous sites in nine European and nine Yoruban individuals whose genomic sequences were made publicly available by Complete Genomics. We show that it is possible to obtain detailed information about inbreeding when a relatively small set of whole-genome sequences is available. Rather than focus on testing for deviations from Hardy-Weinberg genotype frequencies at each site, we analyze the entire distribution of heterozygotes conditioned on the number of copies of the derived (non-chimpanzee) allele. Using Levene's exact test, we reject Hardy-Weinberg in both populations. We generalized Levene's distribution to obtain the exact distribution of the number of heterozygous individuals given that every individual has the same inbreeding coefficient, F. We es

SUBMITTER: Schraiber JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3512152 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature