Peer Review #1 of "Application of Graph Theory to the elaboration of personal genomic data for genealogical research (v0.1)" [peer_review]

2015 unpublished
IIn this communication a representation of the links between DNA-relatives based on Graph Theory is applied to the analysis of personal genomic data to obtain genealogical information. The method is tested on both simulated and real data and its applicability to the field of genealogical research are discussed. We envisage the proposed approach as a valid tool for a streamlined application to the publicly available data generated by many online personal genomic companies. By this way,
more » ... matrices of pairwise genome sharing counts will enable to improve the retrieval of genetic relationship between customers who provided explicit consent to the treatment of their data. PeerJ Comput. Sci. reviewing PDF | (26 27 ABSTRACT In this communication a representation of the links between DNA-relatives based on Graph 29 Theory is applied to the analysis of personal genomic data to obtain genealogical information. 30 The method is tested on both simulated and real data and its applicability to the field of 31 genealogical research are discussed. We envisage the proposed approach as a valid tool for a 32 streamlined application to the publicly available data generated by many online personal 33 genomic companies. By this way, anonymized matrices of pairwise genome sharing counts will 34 enable to improve the retrieval of genetic relationship between customers who provided explicit 35 consent to the treatment of their data. 36
doi:10.7287/peerj-cs.27v0.1/reviews/1 fatcat:fqrk6wvt6ne3jgylymwb3txjem