The HLA-net GENE[RATE] pipeline for effective HLA data analysis and its application to 145 population samples from Europe and neighbouring areas

Article Article scientifique Article The HLA-net GENE[RATE] pipeline for effective HLA data analysis and its application to 145 population samples from Europe and neighbouring areas eng 2014 author Nunes Jose Manuel 122321 author Buhler Stéphane 0000-0001-6675-5287 502714 author Roessli David 23879 author Sanchez-Mazas Alicia 22545 HLA-net 2013 collaboration 307-323 10.1111/tan.12356 0001-2815 In this review, we present for the first time an integrated version of the Gene[rate] computer tools which have been developed during the last 5 years to analyse human leukocyte antigen (HLA) data in human populations, as well as the results of their application to a large dataset of 145 HLA-typed population samples from Europe and its two neighbouring areas, North Africa and West Asia, now forming part of the Gene[va] database. All these computer tools and genetic data are, from now, publicly available through a newly designed bioinformatics platform, HLA-net, here presented as a main achievement of the HLA-NET scientific programme. The Gene[rate] pipeline offers user-friendly computer tools to estimate allele and haplotype frequencies, to test Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium (HWE), selective neutrality and linkage disequilibrium, to recode HLA data, to convert file formats, to display population frequencies of chosen alleles and haplotypes in selected geographic regions, and to perform genetic comparisons among chosen sets of population samples, including new data provided by the user. Both numerical and graphical outputs are generated, the latter being highly explicit and of publication quality. All these analyses can be performed on the pipeline after scrupulous validation of the population sample's characterisation and HLA typing reporting according to HLA-NET recommendations. The Gene[va] database offers direct access to the HLA-A, -B, -C, -DQA1, -DQB1, -DRB1 and -DPB1 frequencies and summary statistics of 145 population samples having successfully passed these HLA-NET ‘filters', and representing three European subregions (South-East, North-East and Central-West Europe) and two neighbouring areas (North Africa, as far as Sudan, and West Asia, as far as South India). The analysis of these data, summarized in this review, shows a substantial genetic variation at the regional level in this continental area. These results have main implications for population genetics, transplantation and epidemiological studies. Data analysis Europe GENE[RATE] Gene[va] Human leukocyte antigen HLA-net North Africa Population genetics West Asia Dewey 590 23 Institut de génétique et de génomique 0DH 44 Département de génétique et évolution 162 false 824 Groupe Sanchez-Mazas 1056 Unité d'anthropologie Tissue antigens 83 5 1899a699-8a29-430d-a248-bf3f14cea171 Article (Published version) Restricted Nunes_et_al_2014_tan12356.pdf 976660 application/pdf restrictedAccess Centres et instituts / Institut de génétique et de génomique Faculté des sciences / Section de biologie / Département de génétique et évolution

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