Şevval Aktürk, Igor Mapelli, Merve N Güler, Kanat Gürün, Büşra Katırcıoğlu, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Ekin Sağlıcan, Mehmet Çetin, Reyhan Yaka, Elif Sürer, Gözde Atağ, Sevim Seda Çokoğlu, Arda Sevkar, N Ezgi Altınışık, Dilek Koptekin, Mehmet Somel
There is growing interest in uncovering genetic kinship patterns in past societies using low-coverage palaeogenomes. Here, we benchmark four tools for kinship estimation with such data: lcMLkin, NgsRelate, KIN, and READ, which differ in their input, IBD estimation methods, and statistical approaches. We used pedigree and ancient genome sequence simulations to evaluate these tools when only a limited number (1 to 50 K, with minor allele frequency ≥0.01) of shared SNPs are available. The performance of all four tools was comparable using ≥20 K SNPs...
April 27, 2024: Molecular Ecology Resources