clusIBD: Robust Detection of Identity-by-descent Segments Using Unphased Genetic Data from Poor-quality Samples
Li R, Zang Y, Liu Z, Yang J, Wang N, Liu J, Wu E, Wu R, Sun H.
Abstract
The detection of identity-by-descent (IBD) segments is widely used to infer relatedness in many fields, including forensics and ancient DNA analysis. However, existing methods are often ineffective for poor-quality DNA samples. Here, we propose a method, clusIBD, which can robustly detect IBD segments using unphased genetic data with a high rate of genotyping error. We evaluated and compared the performance of clusIBD with that of IBIS, TRUFFLE, and IBDseq using simulated data, artificial poor-quality materials, and ancient DNA samples. The results show that clusIBD outperforms these existing tools and could be used for kinship inference in fields such as ancient DNA analysis and criminal investigation. clusIBD is publicly available at GitHub (https://github.com/Ryan620/clusIBD/) and BioCode (https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/biocode/tool/BT007882).
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