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#52 How 23andMe finds identical-by-descent segments with William Freyman

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In this episode, Will Freyman talks about identity-by-descent (IBD): how

it’s used at 23andMe, and how the templated
positional Burrows-Wheeler transform can find IBD segments in the presence of
genotyping and phasing errors.

Links:

  • Fast and robust identity-by-descent inference with the templated positional Burrows-Wheeler transform
    • (William A. Freyman, Kimberly F. McManus, Suyash S. Shringarpure, Ethan M. Jewett, Katarzyna Bryc, the 23andMe Research Team, Adam Auton)
  • 23andMe research

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