PMID- 21254215 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110427 LR - 20211020 IS - 1098-2272 (Electronic) IS - 0741-0395 (Print) IS - 0741-0395 (Linking) VI - 35 IP - 2 DP - 2011 Feb TI - Predicting multiallelic genes using unphased and flanking single nucleotide polymorphisms. PG - 85-92 LID - 10.1002/gepi.20549 [doi] AB - Recent advances in genotyping technologies have enabled genomewide association studies (GWAS) of many complex traits including autoimmune disease, infectious disease, cancer and heart disease. To facilitate interpretations and establish biological basis, it could be advantageous to identify alleles of functional genes, beyond just single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within or nearby genes. Leslie et al. ([2008] Am J Hum Genet 82:48-56) have proposed an Identity-by-Decent method (IBD-based) for predicting human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles (multiallelic and highly polymorphic) with SNP data, and predictions have achieved a satisfactory accuracy on the order of 97%. Building upon their success, we introduce a complementary method for predicting highly polymorphic alleles using unphased SNP data as the training data set. Due to its generality and flexibility, the new method is readily applicable to large population studies. Applying it to HLA genes in a cohort of 630 healthy individuals as a training set, we constructed predictive models for HLA-A, B, C, DRB1 and DQB1. Then, we performed a validation study with another cohort of 630 healthy individuals, and the predictive models achieved predictive accuracies for HLA alleles defined at intermediate or high resolution ranging as high as (100%, 97%) for HLA-A, (98%, 96%) for B, (98%, 98%) for C, (97%, 96%) for DRB1 and (98%, 95%) for DQB1, respectively. These preliminary results suggest the feasibility of predicting other polymorphic genetic alleles, since HLA loci are almost certainly among most polymorphic genes. CI - (c) 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc. FAU - Li, Shuying S AU - Li SS AD - Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109-1024, USA. FAU - Wang, Hongwei AU - Wang H FAU - Smith, Anajane AU - Smith A FAU - Zhang, Bo AU - Zhang B FAU - Zhang, Xinyi Cindy AU - Zhang XC FAU - Schoch, Gary AU - Schoch G FAU - Geraghty, Daniel AU - Geraghty D FAU - Hansen, John A AU - Hansen JA FAU - Zhao, Lue Ping AU - Zhao LP LA - eng GR - R01 CA106320/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 MH084621-03/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 CA119225-03/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01CA106320/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01CA119225/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 CA119225/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 MH084621/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - R01MH084621/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL087690/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 CA106320-07/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HL087690-03/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01HL087690/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural DEP - 20101231 PL - United States TA - Genet Epidemiol JT - Genetic epidemiology JID - 8411723 RN - 0 (HLA Antigens) RN - 0 (HLA-A Antigens) RN - 0 (HLA-B Antigens) RN - 0 (HLA-C Antigens) RN - 0 (HLA-DQ Antigens) RN - 0 (HLA-DQ beta-Chains) RN - 0 (HLA-DQbeta antigen) RN - 0 (HLA-DR Antigens) SB - IM MH - *Alleles MH - Cohort Studies MH - Genetic Techniques MH - Genetics, Population MH - HLA Antigens/*genetics MH - HLA-A Antigens/genetics MH - HLA-B Antigens/genetics MH - HLA-C Antigens/genetics MH - HLA-DQ Antigens/genetics MH - HLA-DQ beta-Chains MH - HLA-DR Antigens/genetics MH - Haplotypes MH - Humans MH - Molecular Epidemiology MH - Polymorphism, Genetic MH - *Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide MH - Reproducibility of Results PMC - PMC3057054 MID - NIHMS265768 EDAT- 2011/01/22 06:00 MHDA- 2011/04/28 06:00 PMCR- 2012/02/01 CRDT- 2011/01/22 06:00 PHST- 2010/07/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2010/10/11 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2011/01/22 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/01/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/04/28 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2012/02/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1002/gepi.20549 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Genet Epidemiol. 2011 Feb;35(2):85-92. doi: 10.1002/gepi.20549. Epub 2010 Dec 31.