Chunk #35 — METHODS — Birdseed (‘SNP genotyping’)

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Integrated genotype calling and association analysis of SNPs, common copy number polymorphisms and rare CNVs.

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Birdseed is a two-dimensional GMM to cluster diploid samples into the canonical SNP genotype classes AA, AB and BB. The algorithm is analogous to that of Canary, extrapolated to two dimensions (Supplementary Methods).