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18398430
TITLE
Evaluation of HapMap data in six populations of European descent.
ABSTRACT
We studied how well the European CEU samples used in the Haplotype Mapping Project (HapMap) represent five European populations by analyzing nuclear family samples from the Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, British and Australian (European ancestry) populations. The number of samples from each population (about 30 parent-offspring trios) was similar to that in the HapMap sample sets. A panel of 186 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) distributed over the 1.5 Mb region of the GRID2 gene on chromosome 4 was genotyped. The genotype data were compared pair-wise between the HapMap sample and the other population samples. Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to cluster the data from different populations with respect to allele frequencies and to define the markers responsible for observed variance. The only sample with detectable differences in allele frequencies was that from Kuusamo, Finland. This sample also separated from the others, including the other Finnish sample, in the PCA analysis. A set of tagSNPs was defined based on the HapMap data and applied to the samples. The tagSNPs were found to capture the genetic variation in the analyzed region at r(2)>0.8 at levels ranging from 95% in the Kuusamo sample to 87% in the Australian sample. To capture the maximal genetic variation in the region, the Kuusamo, HapMap and Australian samples required 58, 63 and 73 native tagSNPs, respectively. The HapMap CEU sample represents the European samples well for tagSNP selection, with some caution regarding estimation of allele frequencies in the Finnish Kuusamo sample, and a slight reduction in tagging efficiency in the Australian sample.
DATE PUBLISHED
2008 Sep
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
aheadofprint 2008/04/09
pubmed 2008/04/10 09:00
medline 2008/10/22 09:00
entrez 2008/04/10 09:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Lundmark PE Lundmark Per E PE Molecular Medicine, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Liljedahl U Liljedahl Ulrika U
Boomsma DI Boomsma Dorret I DI
Mannila H Mannila Heikki H
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG
Palotie A Palotie Aarno A
Peltonen L Peltonen Leena L
Perola M Perola Markus M
Spector TD Spector Tim D TD
Syvänen AC Syvänen Ann-Christine AC
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 16
ISSUE: 9
TITLE: European journal of human genetics : EJHG
ISOABBREVIATION: Eur. J. Hum. Genet.
YEAR: 2008
MONTH: Sep
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 1018-4813
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Eur J Hum Genet
COUNTRY: England
ISSNLINKING: 1018-4813
NLMUNIQUEID: 9302235
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Comparative Study
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Twin Study
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Chromosome Mapping
Databases, Genetic
European Continental Ancestry Group genetics
Gene Frequency genetics
Haplotypes genetics
Humans genetics
Linkage Disequilibrium genetics
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide genetics
Principal Component Analysis methods
Receptors, Glutamate genetics
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
REGISTRYNUMBER NAMEOFSUBSTANCE
0 Receptors, Glutamate
0 glutamate receptor delta 2
OTHER ID's