Methods for accurate computational decomposition of DNA mixtures from contributors of unknown genotypes

Computer methods and systems for quantifying a nucleic acid sample comprising nucleic acid of one or more contributors to: receive nucleic acid sequence reads obtained from the nucleic acid sample and mapped to alleles at polymorphism loci; determine, using the nucleic acid sequence reads, allele co...

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Hauptverfasser: Schlesinger, Johann Felix Wilhelm, Scheffler, Konrad, Kelley, Ryan Matthew
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Zusammenfassung:Computer methods and systems for quantifying a nucleic acid sample comprising nucleic acid of one or more contributors to: receive nucleic acid sequence reads obtained from the nucleic acid sample and mapped to alleles at polymorphism loci; determine, using the nucleic acid sequence reads, allele counts for each of the alleles at the polymorphism loci; use a probabilistic mixture model that applies a probabilistic mixture model to the allele counts, and that uses probability distributions to model the allele counts at the polymorphism loci; quantify, using the probabilistic mixture model, one or more fractions of nucleic acid of the one or more contributors in the nucleic acid sample; determine a probability that a specific contributor among the one or more contributors has a specific genotype; and call, based on the posterior probability, that the nucleic acid sample includes nucleic acid from the specific contributor.