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

<p>In this episode, <a href="http://willfreyman.org">Will Freyman</a> talks about identity-by-descent (IBD): how it’s used at <a href="https://www.23andme.com/">23andMe</a>, and how the <em>templated positional Burrows-Wheeler transform</em> can find IBD segments in the presence of genotyping and phasing errors.</p> <p>Links:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.14.296939v1">Fast and robust identity-by-descent inference with the templated positional Burrows-Wheeler transform</a> (William A. Freyman, Kimberly F. McManus, Suyash S. Shringarpure, Ethan M. Jewett, Katarzyna Bryc, the 23andMe Research Team, Adam Auton)</li> <li><a href="http://23andMe.com/research">23andMe research</a></li> </ul>