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Ancestry-agnostic estimation of DNA sample contamination from sequence reads.

Abstract：

:Detecting and estimating DNA sample contamination are important steps to ensure high-quality genotype calls and reliable downstream analysis. Existing methods rely on population allele frequency information for accurate estimation of contamination rates. Correctly specifying population allele frequencies for each individual in early stage of sequence analysis is impractical or even impossible for large-scale sequencing centers that simultaneously process samples from multiple studies across diverse populations. On the other hand, incorrectly specified allele frequencies may result in substantial bias in estimated contamination rates. For example, we observed that existing methods often fail to identify 10% contaminated samples at a typical 3% contamination exclusion threshold when genetic ancestry is misspecified. Such an incomplete screening of contaminated samples substantially inflates the estimated rate of genotyping errors even in deeply sequenced genomes and exomes. We propose a robust statistical method that accurately estimates DNA contamination and is agnostic to genetic ancestry of the intended or contaminating sample. Our method integrates the estimation of genetic ancestry and DNA contamination in a unified likelihood framework by leveraging individual-specific allele frequencies projected from reference genotypes onto principal component coordinates. Our method can also be used for estimating genetic ancestries, similar to LASER or TRACE, but simultaneously accounting for potential contamination. We demonstrate that our method robustly estimates contamination rates and genetic ancestries across populations and contamination scenarios. We further demonstrate that, in the presence of contamination, genetic ancestry inference can be substantially biased with existing methods that ignore contamination, while our method corrects for such biases.

journal_name

Genome Res

journal_title

Genome research

authors

Zhang F,Flickinger M,Taliun SAG,InPSYght Psychiatric Genetics Consortium.,Abecasis GR,Scott LJ,McCaroll SA,Pato CN,Boehnke M,Kang HM

doi

10.1101/gr.246934.118

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-02-01 00:00:00

pages

185-194

issue

eissn

1088-9051

issn

1549-5469

pii

gr.246934.118

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pub_type

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Ancestry-agnostic estimation of DNA sample contamination from sequence reads.