Biology – Quantitative Biology – Quantitative Methods
Scientific paper
2007-09-05
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Quantitative Methods
14 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
Regions in the genome that affect complex traits, quantitative trait loci (QTL), can be identified using statistical analysis of genetic and phenotypic data. When restricted maximum-likelihood (REML) models are used, the mapping procedure is normally computationally demanding. We develop a new efficient computational scheme for QTL mapping using variance component analysis and the AI-REML algorithm. The algorithm uses an exact or approximative low-rank representation of the identity-by-descent matrix, which combined with the Woodbury formula for matrix inversion results in that the computations in the AI-REML iteration body can be performed more efficiently. For cases where an exact low-rank representation of the IBD matrix is available a-priori, the improved AI-REML algorithm normally runs almost twice as fast compared to the standard version. When an exact low-rank representation is not available, a truncated spectral decomposition is used to determine a low-rank approximation. We show that also in this case, the computational efficiency of the AI-REML scheme can often be significantly improved.
Holmgren Sverker
Mishchenko Kateryna
Ronnegard Lars
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