On the complexity of SNP block partitioning under the perfect phylogeny model

Qjens Gramm*, Tzvika Hartman, Till Nierhoff, Roded Sharan, Till Tantau

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Abstract

Recent technologies for typing single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across a population are producing genome-wide genotype data for tens of thousands of SNP sites. The emergence of such large data sets underscores the importance of algorithms for large-scale haplotyping. Common haplotyping approaches first partition the SNPs into blocks of high linkage-disequilibrium, and then infer haplotypes for each block separately. We investigate an integrated haplotyping approach where a partition of the SNPs into a minimum number of non-contiguous subsets is sought, such that each subset can be haplotyped under the perfect phylogeny model. We show that finding an optimum partition is NP-hard even if we are guaranteed that two subsets suffice. On the positive side, we show that a variant of the problem, in which each subset is required to admit a perfect path phylogeny haplotyping, is solvable in polynomial time.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAlgorithms in Bioinformatics - 6th International Workshop, WABI 2006, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages92-102
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)3540395830, 9783540395836
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event6th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics, WABI 2006 - Zurich, Switzerland
Duration: 11 Sep 200613 Sep 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4175 LNBI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference6th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics, WABI 2006
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityZurich
Period11/09/0613/09/06

Funding

FundersFunder number
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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