Detecting simultaneous variant intervals in aligned sequences

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DOI10.1214/10-AOAS400zbMATH Open1223.62166arXiv1108.3177MaRDI QIDQ641121FDOQ641121


Authors: B. Yakir, Nancy R. Zhang, David Siegmund Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 21 October 2011

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given a set of aligned sequences of independent noisy observations, we are concerned with detecting intervals where the mean values of the observations change simultaneously in a subset of the sequences. The intervals of changed means are typically short relative to the length of the sequences, the subset where the change occurs, the "carriers," can be relatively small, and the sizes of the changes can vary from one sequence to another. This problem is motivated by the scientific problem of detecting inherited copy number variants in aligned DNA samples. We suggest a statistic based on the assumption that for any given interval of changed means there is a given fraction of samples that carry the change. We derive an analytic approximation for the false positive error probability of a scan, which is shown by simulations to be reasonably accurate. We show that the new method usually improves on methods that analyze a single sample at a time and on our earlier multi-sample method, which is most efficient when the carriers form a large fraction of the set of sequences. The proposed procedure is also shown to be robust with respect to the assumed fraction of carriers of the changes.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3177




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