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Estimation of Jacquard's genetic identity coefficients with bi-allelic variants by constrained least-squares.

Jan Graffelman, Bruce S Weir, Jérôme Goudet

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Jan GraffelmanDepartment of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. jan.graffelman@upc.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-3900-0780
Bruce S WeirDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4883-1247
Jérôme GoudetDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-5318-7601

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Theoretical Population Genetics SupplementR01GM075091 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI WEIR, BRUCE S. · 2006 to 2020
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Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, Inc.) GM075091NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM075091Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) 310030_215709Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) 31003A_179358
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Abstract

The Jacquard genetic identity coefficients are of fundamental importance in relatedness research. We address the estimation of these coefficients as well as other relationship parameters that derive from them such as kinship and inbreeding coefficients using a concise matrix framework. Estimation of the Jacquard coefficients via likelihood methods and the expectation-maximization algorithm is computationally very demanding for large numbers of polymorphisms. We propose a constrained least squares approach to estimate the Jacquard coefficients. A simulation study shows constrained least squares achieves root-mean-squared errors that are comparable with those of the maximum likelihood approach, in particular when founder allele frequencies are unknown, while obtaining enormous computational savings.

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AllelesGenetic VariationModels, GeneticAlgorithmsComputer SimulationGene FrequencyHumansLeast-Squares AnalysisLikelihood Functions

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PMID39511434
PMCPMC11724073

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