RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 035170 DO 10.1101/035170 A1 Shane McCarthy A1 Sayantan Das A1 Warren Kretzschmar A1 Olivier Delaneau A1 Andrew R. Wood A1 Hyun Min Kang A1 Christian Fuchsberger A1 Petr Danecek A1 Kevin Sharp A1 Yang Luo A1 Carlo Sidore A1 Alan Kwong A1 Nicholas Timpson A1 Seppo Koskinen A1 Scott Vrieze A1 Laura Scott A1 He Zhang A1 Anubha Mahajan A1 Jan Veldink A1 Ulrike Peters A1 Carlos Pato A1 Cornelia M. van Duijn A1 Christopher E. Gillies A1 Ilaria Gandin A1 Massimo Mezzavilla A1 Arthur Gilly A1 Massimiliano Cocca A1 Michela Traglia A1 Andrea Angius A1 Dorret I. Boomsma A1 Kari Branham A1 Chad Brummet A1 Fabio Busonero A1 Harry Campbell A1 Andrew Chan A1 Sai Chen A1 Emily Chew A1 Francis S. Collins A1 George Davey Smith A1 George Dedoussis A1 Aliki-Eleni Farmaki A1 Luigi Ferrucci A1 Lukas Forer A1 Ross M. Fraser A1 Stacey Gabriel A1 Shawn Levy A1 Leif Groop A1 Tabitha Harrison A1 Andrew Hattersley A1 Oddgeir L. Holmen A1 Kristian Hveem A1 Matthias Kretzler A1 James Lee A1 Matt McGue A1 Thomas Meitinger A1 David Melzer A1 Josine Min A1 Karen L. Mohlke A1 John Vincent A1 Gerome Breen A1 Deborah Nickerson A1 Aarno Palotie A1 Michele Pato A1 Nicola Pirastu A1 Melvin McInnis A1 Brent Richards A1 Cinzia Sala A1 Veikko Salomaa A1 David Schlessinger A1 Sebastian Schoenheer A1 P Eline Slagboom A1 Kerrin Small A1 Timothy Spector A1 Dwight Stambolian A1 Marcus Tuke A1 Jaakko Tuomilehto A1 Leonard Van den Berg A1 Wouter Van Rheenen A1 Cisca Wijmenga A1 Daniela Toniolo A1 Eleftheria Zeggini A1 Paolo Gasparini A1 Matthew G. Sampson A1 James F. Wilson A1 Timothy Frayling A1 Paul de Bakker A1 Morris A. Swertz A1 Steven McCarroll A1 Charles Kooperberg A1 Annelot Dekker A1 David Altshuler A1 Cristen Willer A1 William Iacono A1 Samuli Ripatti A1 Nicole Soranzo A1 Klaudia Walter A1 Anand Swaroop A1 Francesco Cucca A1 Carl Anderson A1 Michael Boehnke A1 Mark I. McCarthy A1 Richard Durbin A1 Goncalo Abecasis A1 Jonathan Marchini YR 2015 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/12/23/035170.abstract AB We describe a reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes at 39,235,157 SNPs constructed using whole genome sequence data from 20 studies of predominantly European ancestry. Using this resource leads to accurate genotype imputation at minor allele frequencies as low as 0.1%, a large increase in the number of SNPs tested in association studies and can help to refine causal loci. We describe remote server resources that allow researchers to carry out imputation and phasing consistently and efficiently.