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ArticleNature computational science2023

Neural ADMIXTURE for rapid genomic clustering.

Albert Dominguez Mantes, Daniel Mas Montserrat, Carlos D Bustamante, Xavier Giró-I-Nieto, Alexander G Ioannidis

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Article in Nature computational science, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Albert Dominguez MantesDepartment of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford Medical School, Stanford, CA, United States.
Daniel Mas MontserratDepartment of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford Medical School, Stanford, CA, United States.
Carlos D BustamanteGalatea Bio, Hialeah, FL, United States.
Xavier Giró-I-NietoSignal Theory and Communications Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Alexander G IoannidisDepartment of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford Medical School, Stanford, CA, United States.
Stanford Medicine · USClinical Pharmacology of Miami · USUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya · ES

Funding

Optimizing imputation for diverse populations in a distributed frameworkU01HG009080 · NHGRI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI KENNY, EIMEAR ELIZABETH · 2016 to 2020
$5.2M
SOFTWARE FOR LARGE-SCALE INFERENCE OF THE GENETICS OF LIFESTYLE MEASURES, BIOMARKERS, AND COMMON AND RARE DISEASESR01HG010140 · NHGRI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI KUNDAJE, ANSHUL, MONTGOMERY, STEPHEN · 2018 to 2022
$2.0M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG010140NHGRI NIH HHS U01 HG009080
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Characterizing the genetic structure of large cohorts has become increasingly important as genetic studies extend to massive, increasingly diverse biobanks. Popular methods decompose individual genomes into fractional cluster assignments with each cluster representing a vector of DNA variant frequencies. However, with rapidly increasing biobank sizes, these methods have become computationally intractable. Here we present Neural ADMIXTURE, a neural network autoencoder that follows the same modeling assumptions as the current standard algorithm, ADMIXTURE, while reducing the compute time by orders of magnitude surpassing even the fastest alternatives. One month of continuous compute using ADMIXTURE can be reduced to just hours with Neural ADMIXTURE. A multi-head approach allows Neural ADMIXTURE to offer even further acceleration by calculating multiple cluster numbers in a single run. Furthermore, the models can be stored, allowing cluster assignment to be performed on new data in linear time without needing to share the training samples.

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PMID37600116
PMCPMC10438426
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