Abstract
Cryptic relationships such as first-degree relatives often appear in studies that collect population samples, including genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and next-generation sequencing (NGS) analyses. Cryptic relatedness not only increases type 1 error rate of association tests but also affects other analytical aspects of GWAS and NGS such as population stratification via principal component analysis. Here, we discuss three effective methods, as implemented in PREST, PLINK, and KING, to detect and correct for the problem of cryptic relatedness using high-throughput SNP data collected from GWAS and NGS experiments. We provide the analytical and practical details involved using three application examples.
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Sun, L., Dimitromanolakis, A., Chen, WM. (2017). Identifying Cryptic Relationships. In: Elston, R. (eds) Statistical Human Genetics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1666. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7274-6_4
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