EvalAdmix

evalAdmix allows to evaluate the results of an admixture analysis. It takes as input the genotype data (either called genotypes in plink files or genotype likelihoods beagle files) used in the admixture analysis and the frequency and admixture propotions (P and Q files) generated.

The output is a pairwise correlation of residuals matrix between individuals The correlation will be 0 in case of a good fit of the data to the admixture model. When something is wrong, individuals from the same population will be positively correlated; and individuals from different populationts but that share one or more ancestral populations as admixture sources will have a negative correlation. Positive correlation between a pair of individuals might also be due to relatedness.

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Download and Installation

evalAdmix can be installed from github

git clone https://github.com/GenisGE/evalAdmix.git cd evalAdmix make

Quick start

./NGSadmix -likes inputBeagleFile.gz -K 3 -o outFileName -P 10

• -likes beagle file of genotype likelihoods
• -K number of clusters
• -o prefix of output file names
• -P Number of threads used

Parameters

./evalAdmix  

Arguments:
	-plink path to binary plink file (excluding the .bed)
	-beagle path to beagle file containing genotype likelihoods (alternative to -plink)
	-fname path to ancestral population frequencies file
	-qname path to admixture proportions file
	-o name of the output file
Setup:
	-P 1 number of threads
	-autosomeMax 23	 autosome ends with this chromsome
	-nIts 5	 number of iterations to do for frequency correction; if set to 0 calculates correlation without correction (fast but biased)
	-useSites 1.0	 proportion of sites to use to calculate correlation of residuals
	-misTol 0.05 	 tolerance for considering site as missing when using genotype likelihoods. Use same value as used in NGSadmix to keep compatibility when using genotype likelihoods (-beagle)
	-minMaf 0.05 	 minimum minor allele frequency to keep site. Use same value as used in NGSadmix to keep compatibility when using genotype likelihoods (-beagle)

Input File

The input file contains genotype likelihoods in a .beagle file format [1]. and can be compressed with gzip.

BAM files

If you have BAM files you can use ANGSD to produce genotype likelihoods in .beagle format. Please see Creation of Beagle files with ANGSD

VCF files

If you already have made a VCF file that contains genotype likehood information then it should be possible to convert .vcf files with genotype likelihoods to .beagle file via vcftools [2]

vcftools --vcf input.vcf --out test --BEAGLE-GL --chr 1,2

Chromosome has to be specified.

You can also use bcftools' [3] 'query' option for generating a .beagle file from a .vcf file.

Output Files

The analysis performed by NGSadmix produces 4 files:

• Log likelihood of the estimates: a .log file that summarizes the run. The Command line used for running the program, what the likelihood is every 50 iterations, and finally how long it took to do the run.

• Estimated allele frequency: a zipped .fopt file, that contains an estimate of the allele frequency in each of the 3 assumed ancestral populations. There is a line for each locus.

• Estimated admixture proportions: a .qopt file, that contains an estimate of the individual's ancestry proportion (admixture) from each of the three assumed ancestral populations for all individuals. There is a line for each individual.

Run command example

Download the input file

wget popgen.dk/software/download/NGSadmix/data/input.gz

Execute NGSadmix

./NGSadmix -likes input.gz -K 3 -P 4 -o myoutfiles -minMaf 0.05

Input file = input.gz

Ancestral Populations K=3

Computer cores = 4 (-P 4).

Output prefix = myoutfiles (-o myoutfiles)

SNPs with MAF > 5% (-minMaf 0.05)