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Reconstruction of pedigrees in clonal plant populations
Markus Riester, Peter F. Stadler, Konstantin Klemm
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Theor. Popul. Biol. 78:109-117 (2010)
Abstract
We present a Bayesian method for the reconstruction of pedigrees in clonal
populations using co-dominant genomic markers such as microsatellites and
single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The accuracy of the algorithm is
demonstrated for simulated data. We show that the joint estimation of
parameters of interest such as the rate of self-fertilization is possible
with high accuracy even with marker panels of moderate power. Classical
methods can only assign a very limited number of statistically significant
parentages in this case and would therefore fail. Statistical confidence is
estimated by Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling. The method is
implemented in a fast and easy to use open source software that scales to
large datasets with many thousand individuals.
Keywords
pedigree, parentage, microsatellite, SNP, clonal, selfing, MCMC