Genotype imputation and error estimation in connected multiparental populations

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2026
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Abstract
Multiparental populations have been produced for quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping in many crops, where next-generation sequencing has become a cost-effective tool for genotyping. Previously, we have developed a hidden Markov framework denoted by MagicImpute_mma for genotype imputation in a multiparental population, which was implemented in Mathematica. However, its computational time increases quickly with the number of founders. In this work, we extend MagicImpute_mma into MagicImpute for increasing computational efficiency and robustness to various types of errors. Particularly, it has the following novel features: (1) allowing for multiple multiparental populations that may be connected by sharing founders, (2) allowing for many missing founders that are not available for sequencing, (3) accounting for allelic bias and overdispersion in next generation sequencing data, (4) inferring marker-specific error rates and filtering for markers with low error rates, and (5) being implemented in the high performance Julia language. Besides extensive simulation studies, we evaluate MagicImpute by three real datasets: the rice F2 population with sequence depth being low, the apple cross pollinated (CP) population with parents being outbred, and the sorghum multi-parent advanced generation inter-cross (MAGIC) population with 10 male sterile lines (out of 29 founders) missing. The results have shown that MagicImpute is well capable of imputing many missing founders if there are sufficient offspring (e.g. 20 per founder), and that MagicImpute is accurate for genotype imputation in connected bi- or multi-parental populations with various types of sequence errors, and it opens up new opportunities for QTL mapping after imputing many missing founders.
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Authors Chaozhi Zheng, Eligio Bossolini, Nataša Formanová, Antje Rohde, Martin P. Boer, Fred A. van Eeuwijk
Journal current genetics
Year 2026
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10.1093/genetics/iyag217
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https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyag217
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