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Article Dans Une Revue Forensic Science International: Genetics Année : 2020

Predicting haplogroups using a versatile machine learning program (PredYMaLe) on a new mutationally balanced 32 Y-STR multiplex (CombYplex): unlocking the full potential of the human STR mutation rate spectrum to estimate forensic parameters

Andreia Moreira
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Myriam Croze
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Solène Delon
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Cesar Fortes-Lima
Morgane Gibert
Candela Lucia Hernández
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Efren Avendaño-Tamayo
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Jacques Charioni
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Catherine Mollereau-Manaute
Camille Noûs
Turi King
Maria Eugenia D’amato
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Patricia Balaresque

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We developed a new mutationally well-balanced 32 Y-STR multiplex ( CombYplex) together with a machine learning (ML) program PredYMa Le to assess the impact of STR mutability on haplogourp prediction, while respecting forensic community criteria (high DC/HD). We designed CombYplex around two sub-panels M1 and M2 characterized by average and high-mutation STR panels. Using these two sub-panels, we tested how our program PredYmale reacts to mutability when considering basal branches and, moving down, terminal branches. We tested first the discrimination capacity of CombYplex on 996 human samples using various forensic and statistical parameters and showed that its resolution is sufficient to separate haplogroup classes. In parallel, Pred YMa Le was designed and used to test whether a ML approach can predict haplogroup classes from Y-STR profiles. Applied to our kit, SVM and Random Forest classifiers perform very well (average 97 %), better than Neural Network (average 91 %) and Bayesian methods (< 90 %). We observe heterogeneity in haplogroup assignation accuracy among classes, with most haplogroups having high prediction scores (99–100 %) and two (E1b1b and G) having lower scores (67 %). The small sample sizes of these classes explain the high tendency to misclassify the Y-profiles of these haplogroups; results were measurably improved as soon as more training data were added. We provide evidence that our ML approach is a robust method to accurately predict haplogroups when it is combined with a sufficient number of markers, well-balanced mutation rate Y-STR panels, and large ML training sets. Further research on confounding factors (such as CNV-STR or gene conversion) and ideal STR panels in regard to the branches analysed can be developed to help classifiers further optimize prediction scores.
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hal-02906055 , version 1 (06-11-2020)

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Caroline Bouakaze, Franklin Delehelle, Nancy Sáenz-Oyhéréguy, Andreia Moreira, Stéphanie Schiavinato, et al.. Predicting haplogroups using a versatile machine learning program (PredYMaLe) on a new mutationally balanced 32 Y-STR multiplex (CombYplex): unlocking the full potential of the human STR mutation rate spectrum to estimate forensic parameters. Forensic Science International: Genetics , 2020, 48, pp.102342. ⟨10.1016/j.fsigen.2020.102342⟩. ⟨hal-02906055⟩
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