Evidence mapPaperPMID 41390671Full record

ArticleNature communications2025

Flexible read-aware genotype imputation from sequence using biobank sized reference panels.

Zilong Li, Anders Albrechtsen, Robert W Davies

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Review
  5. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Zilong LiComputational and RNA Biology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. zilong.dk@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5859-2078
Anders AlbrechtsenComputational and RNA Biology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7306-031X
Robert W DaviesDepartment of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. robertwilliamdavies@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2252-0862

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inexpensive and accurate genotyping methods are essential to modern genomics and health risk prediction. Here we introduce QUILT2, a scalable and read-aware imputation method that can efficiently use biobank scale haplotype reference panels. This allows for fast and accurate imputation using short reads, as well as long reads (e.g. Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) 1X, r2 = 0.937 at common SNPs), linked-reads and ancient DNA. In addition, QUILT2 contains a methodological innovation that is designed to enable imputation of the maternal and fetal genome using cell free non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) data. Using a UK Biobank reference panel and simulated NIPT data, we see accurate imputation of the mother (0.25X, r2 = 0.966, common SNPs) and modest imputation of the fetus (0.25X, r2 = 0.465, fetal fraction of 10%) at low coverage, with fetal imputation accuracy rising with coverage (4.0X, fetal r2 = 0.894). We show using simulated data that this could enable both GWAS and PRS for the mother and fetus, which could create clinical opportunities, and if phenotypes can be collected alongside clinical NIPT, the potential for large GWAS.

Indexed as

Biological Specimen BanksGenotyping TechniquesFemaleFetusGenome, HumanGenome-Wide Association StudyGenomicsGenotypeHaplotypesHumansNoninvasive Prenatal TestingPolymorphism, Single NucleotidePregnancyUnited Kingdom

Identifiers

PMID41390671
PMCPMC12804713

What Socratic holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.