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Improved Recombination Lower Bounds for Haplotype Data

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Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2005)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNBI,volume 3500))

Abstract

Recombination is an important evolutionary mechanism responsible for the genetic diversity in humans and other organisms. Recently, there has been extensive research on understanding the fine scale variation in recombination rates across the human genome using DNA polymorphism data. A combinatorial approach toward this is to estimate the minimum number of recombination events in any history of the sample. Recently, Myers and Griffiths [1] proposed two measures, R h and R s , that give lower bounds on the minimum number of recombination events. In this paper, we provide new and improved methods (both in terms of running time and ability to detect past recombination events) for computing recombination lower bounds. Our principal results include:

  • We show that computing the lower bound R h is NP-hard and adapt the greedy algorithm for the set cover problem [2] to obtain a polynomial time algorithm for computing a diversity based bound R g . This algorithm is several orders of magnitude faster than the Recmin program [1] and the bound R g matches the bound R h almost always.

  • We also show that computing the lower bound is also NP-hard using a reduction from MAX-2SAT. We give a O(m 2n) time algorithm for computing R s for a dataset with n haplotypes and m SNP’s. We propose a new bound R I which extends the history based bound R s using the notion of intermediate haplotypes. This bound detects more recombination events than both R h and R s bounds on many real datasets.

  • We extend our algorithms for computing R g and R s to obtain lower bounds for haplotypes with missing data. These methods can detect more recombination events for the LPL dataset [3] than previous bounds and provide stronger evidence for the presence of a recombination hotspot.

  • We apply our lower bounds to a real dataset [4] and demonstrate that these can provide a good indication for the presence and the location of recombination hotspots.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0114, USA

    Vineet Bafna & Vikas Bansal

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  1. Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, 108-8639, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Satoru Miyano

  2. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 320 Charles Street, 02141-2023, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Jill Mesirov

  3. Computational Genomics Laboratory, Department of Bioengineering, Boston University, 44 Cummington St., 02215, Boston, MA, USA

    Simon Kasif

  4. Center for Molecular Biology and Computer Sciecne Department, Brown University, 115 Waterman St., 02912, Providence, RI, USA

    Sorin Istrail

  5. University of California, San Diego, USA

    Pavel A. Pevzner

  6. Department of Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, 1050 Childs Way, 90089-2910, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Michael Waterman

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Bafna, V., Bansal, V. (2005). Improved Recombination Lower Bounds for Haplotype Data. In: Miyano, S., Mesirov, J., Kasif, S., Istrail, S., Pevzner, P.A., Waterman, M. (eds) Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3500. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11415770_43

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