Y haplogroup analyses are an important component of genealogical reconstruction, population genetic analyses, medical genetics and forensics. These fields are increasingly moving towards use of low-coverage, high throughput sequencing. However, there is as yet no software available for using sequence data to assign Y haplogroup groups probabilistically, such that the posterior probability of assignment fully reflects the information present in the data, and borrows information across all samples sequenced from a population. YHap addresses this problem.
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@article{arxiv.1304.3351,
title = {YHap: software for probabilistic assignment of Y haplogroups from population re-sequencing data},
author = {Fan Zhang and Ruoyan Chen and Dongbing Liu and Xiaotian Yao and Guoqing Li and Yabin Jin and Chang Yu and Yingrui Li and Lachlan Coin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.3351},
year = {2013}
}