Genotype imputation and reference panel: a systematic evaluation on haplotype size and diversity

Here, 622 imputations were conducted with 394 customized reference panels for Han Chinese and European populations. Besides validating the fact that imputation accuracy could always benefit from the increased panel size when the reference panel was population specific, the results brought two new thoughts. First, when the haplotype size of the reference panel was fixed, the imputation accuracy of common and low-frequency variants (Minor Allele...