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  • New Features
    • Archaic genetic calls in masked regions are retained and marked for masking rather than discarded. Separate masks are applied for each archaic genome during IBDmix analysis. Segments can cross masked regions, though a homozygous mismatch can end a segment. Rows outside the strict mask continue to be dropped.
  • Documentation
    • Updated archaic ancestry guidance to explain masked calls, mask behavior, and reported chr22 results, including the whole-genome range used to compare results with the published figure.

…the published workflow does

The table coded a call outside its genome's FilterBed as unknown (9) and
dropped every row in a segmental duplication or indel window. IBDmix then
had nothing to score there, so a segment ran through masked sequence that
contradicts it. Chen et al. keep those sites and pass a mask to IBDmix,
which stops them scoring except for a homozygous mismatch.

The table now marks a masked call as 10 plus its ALT count. Step 43 writes
the call to IBDmix and the masked positions to chrN.<genome>.mask.bed,
passed with -r in the bash step and the Nextflow module. A table without
masked codes gives empty masks and the old result.

Bead: pgp-pfw6.35
…BDmix mask

The e2e case checked that the masks dropped rows (fewer than 645,000 on
chr22). The masks now mark calls instead, so it checks each archaic column
holds masked codes and every code is 0, 1, 2, 9 or 10 to 12.

Bead: pgp-pfw6.35
…only the person

The first version changed the table codes after the row was written, so
both runs scored the mismatches in full and the 9 control could not show
the segment running through the middle.

Bead: pgp-pfw6.35
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The change retains masked archaic calls in tables using codes 10–12, converts those codes to ALT counts while creating per-genome mask BED files, and passes the matching masks to IBDmix. Tests and documentation describe the updated table and segment behavior.

Changes: Masked archaic calls

Layer / File(s) Summary
Retain and encode masked calls
bin/archaic_report.py, tests/test_archaic_report.py, tests/e2e/archaic-ancestry-1.sh, docs/43-archaic.md
Table generation retains calls at excluded or out-of-mask positions and encodes known ALT counts as 10–12. Tests check retained rows and valid codes. Documentation describes which positions are marked and which rows remain excluded.
Generate genotypes and mask BED files
bin/archaic_report.py, tests/test_archaic_report.py
Genotype generation validates archaic codes, converts masked codes to ALT counts, and writes per-genome BED intervals for masked rows. Tests cover interval boundaries, empty masks, and invalid codes.
Pass masks to IBDmix
modules/local/archaic/main.nf, scripts/43-archaic.sh, tests/test_archaic_report.py, docs/43-archaic.md
Workflow invocations pass each archaic genome’s mask BED to IBDmix with -r. Integration tests compare segment coverage for masked and unknown calls. Documentation describes how masked sites relate to segments.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

  • geiresx/OwnGenome#32: Both PRs retain masked archaic calls as codes 10–12 and pass per-genome mask BED files to IBDmix.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 932e4

Reusing an older archaic table can silently produce inflated segment results. Require a compatible table or rebuild it before merging; also limit the published-figure comparison to the measured chr22 result.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 932e4

The new producer and consumers agree on mask names, coordinates and decoding. No introduced security vulnerability was established. The main design risk is rollback compatibility: rebuilt tables contain values the previous code does not decode, so reverting code alone does not restore the previous behavior.

Retained concerns

  • Low · architecture · inferred: Code-only rollback is incompatible with rebuilt reference tables. The new table retains codes 10–12 under the existing header and dataset location; the previous genotype reader forwards those values directly to IBDmix without decoding or supplying masks. Runtime DONE checks do not detect this mismatch. Restoring the previous processing contract therefore also requires restoring or rebuilding the reference tables; the external binary's exact response to the incompatible values remains unverified.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated propagation is through the opt-in archaic ancestry pipeline. A rebuilt reference directory can affect every enabled sample using it, while generated genotype and mask artifacts remain associated with each sample's workflow execution. No broader tenant or environment exposure was established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The normal reference-data path verifies pinned FilterBed checksums before passing those masks and exclusion files to the table producer. The sample VCF affects genotype selection and row omission; it does not supply the reference mask policy.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The shell workflow clears its work directory and completes genotype/mask generation before launching parallel chromosome consumers. IBDmix outputs are renamed from temporary files only on success, and failures stop reporting. This bounds partial-generation exposure in that execution path; the lower-level CLI itself writes directly into its output directory.
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Test mask suppression of matching calls.

The mismatch assertion can pass even if IBDmix ignores the mask. Add a fixture with masked matching calls and compare identical input with and without -r. Assert that the masked calls do not contribute to the score.

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Review comment at @tests/test_archaic_report.py around lines 441 - 466:
Extend the middle-site test around synthetic and ibdmix_run with a fixture
containing masked matching calls, then run identical input with and without -r.
Compare the resulting scores to verify that masked matching calls do not
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Review comments at @docs/43-archaic.md:
- Line 113: Update the comparison in the archaic-share description to limit the
improvement claim to chr22, rather than implying a whole-genome result. State
that HG002’s chr22 Neanderthal total is closer to the published figures than
before but remains above the 95th percentile, while preserving the existing
explanation of how the share and segments are calculated.

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matching calls do not contribute to the score, while preserving the existing
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- The table has autosomes only: chrX and chrY are not assessed.
- Sites the VCF has no record for are read as the reference allele. A VCF that holds only variants (no reference calls) cannot tell a reference call from a gap in coverage.
- The share is of the analysed span, and the span still runs from the first to the last table site of each chromosome whatever the masks remove. A segment runs from its first site to the site after its last, so it can cross masked sequence and count those bases; a wrong genotype at a site that was kept can raise the share as well. The number is an estimate in both directions, not a floor. Compare it with the published per-person figures, which come from masked data too.
- The share is of the analysed span, and the span still runs from the first to the last table site of each chromosome whatever the masks remove. A segment runs from its first site to the site after its last, so it can cross masked sequence and count those bases (a homozygous mismatch at a masked site still ends it, as in the published workflow); a wrong genotype at a site that was kept can raise the share as well. The number is an estimate in both directions, not a floor. Compare it with the published per-person figures, which come from masked data too; today it is closer to them than before, not yet in line.

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printf '\n--- documentation ---\n'
nl -ba docs/43-archaic.md | sed -n '1,150p'
printf '\n--- test ---\n'
nl -ba tests/e2e/archaic-ancestry-1.sh | sed -n '1,220p'

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Limit the comparison to chr22.

The masked-table result covers chr22 only. It does not establish whether the whole-genome total improved.

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--- "a/docs/43-archaic.md"
+++ "b/docs/43-archaic.md"
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
 - A segment counts when either of your two copies carries it. The share is of the analysed span, not of the whole genome.
 - The table has autosomes only: chrX and chrY are not assessed.
 - Sites the VCF has no record for are read as the reference allele. A VCF that holds only variants (no reference calls) cannot tell a reference call from a gap in coverage.
-- The share is of the analysed span, and the span still runs from the first to the last table site of each chromosome whatever the masks remove. A segment runs from its first site to the site after its last, so it can cross masked sequence and count those bases (a homozygous mismatch at a masked site still ends it, as in the published workflow); a wrong genotype at a site that was kept can raise the share as well. The number is an estimate in both directions, not a floor. Compare it with the published per-person figures, which come from masked data too; today it is closer to them than before, not yet in line.
+- The share is of the analysed span, and the span still runs from the first to the last table site of each chromosome whatever the masks remove. A segment runs from its first site to the site after its last, so it can cross masked sequence and count those bases (a homozygous mismatch at a masked site still ends it, as in the published workflow); a wrong genotype at a site that was kept can raise the share as well. The number is an estimate in both directions, not a floor. Compare it with the published per-person figures, which come from masked data too. On chr22, HG002's Neanderthal total is closer to the published figures than before, but remains above the 95th percentile.
 - The CpG sites Chen et al. exclude are kept here. A C to T change at a CpG site is the commonest ancient-DNA error, so a few of the archaic genotypes at those sites are wrong in both directions, and the sites are over-represented among the matches a method like this finds. Their own filter needs data this pipeline does not install, so the share carries that error; it is one of the reasons a number from this step is an estimate.
 - On the e2e fixture the case builds the table for GRCh37 chr22 and checks HG002's GIAB v4.2.1 genotypes against the published chr22 spread, a copy of HG002 with one chromosome over chr22:28-29 Mb taken from Vindija (a Neanderthal segment must cover it), a person built from the table who carries only the majority allele (a quarter of HG002's Neanderthal sequence at most), that no table row falls outside the strict mask, and that the FilterBeds and the exclusions marked calls masked.
 
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- The share is of the analysed span, and the span still runs from the first to the last table site of each chromosome whatever the masks remove. A segment runs from its first site to the site after its last, so it can cross masked sequence and count those bases (a homozygous mismatch at a masked site still ends it, as in the published workflow); a wrong genotype at a site that was kept can raise the share as well. The number is an estimate in both directions, not a floor. Compare it with the published per-person figures, which come from masked data too; today it is closer to them than before, not yet in line.
- The share is of the analysed span, and the span still runs from the first to the last table site of each chromosome whatever the masks remove. A segment runs from its first site to the site after its last, so it can cross masked sequence and count those bases (a homozygous mismatch at a masked site still ends it, as in the published workflow); a wrong genotype at a site that was kept can raise the share as well. The number is an estimate in both directions, not a floor. Compare it with the published per-person figures, which come from masked data too. On chr22, HG002's Neanderthal total is closer to the published figures than before, but remains above the 95th percentile.
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Update the comparison in the archaic-share description to limit the improvement
claim to chr22, rather than implying a whole-genome result. State that HG002’s
chr22 Neanderthal total is closer to the published figures than before but
remains above the 95th percentile, while preserving the existing explanation of
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- Around line 260-272: Mark tables written by the current format and make
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excl = any([m.holds(cur) for m in excluded])
outside = [excl or (n in masks and not masks[n].holds(cur)) for n in ARCHAICS]
r = table_row(cur, modern, arch)
if r is None:
return
ref, alt, codes, afs = r
# A genome's call outside its mask, or at an excluded site, is kept but
# marked masked (MASKED + code). Step 43 hands IBDmix the call and a
# mask of those positions, as Chen et al. do: IBDmix scores nothing
# there except a homozygous mismatch, which still counts against a
# segment. Dropping the call instead (code 9) let segments run through
# masked sequence nothing could contradict.
codes = [c + MASKED if (out and c != 9) else c for c, out in zip(codes, outside)]

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rg -nP 'archaic_report\.py\s+table|TABLE_HEADER|table-dir|\.tsv\.gz' scripts modules bin

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printf '%s\n' '--- setup cache and build ---'
nl -ba scripts/setup.sh | sed -n '1815,2020p'
printf '%s\n' '--- genotype reader and mask output ---'
nl -ba bin/archaic_report.py | sed -n '350,485p'
printf '%s\n' '--- step 43 ---'
nl -ba scripts/43-archaic.sh | sed -n '1,120p'
printf '%s\n' '--- PR diff ---'
git diff ec454bf36e9f4679c4b1f765e113b9c6425177d3 932e4694a7a6cc0e22a2e2a2dab5f4806c4fb93d -- scripts/setup.sh bin/archaic_report.py scripts/43-archaic.sh

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printf '%s\n' '--- data version and setup/run guidance ---'
rg -n -F -e 'ARCHAIC_DATA_VERSION' -e 'setup.sh --archaic' -e '43-archaic.sh' -- versions.env docs/43-archaic.md docs/00-reference-setup.md scripts/run-all.sh main.nf nextflow.config modules/local/archaic/main.nf
printf '%s\n' '--- all changed paths ---'
git diff --name-status ec454bf36e9f4679c4b1f765e113b9c6425177d3 932e4694a7a6cc0e22a2e2a2dab5f4806c4fb93d
printf '%s\n' '--- stamp boundary ---'
rg -n -F -- '# --- genotypes (step 43)' bin/archaic_report.py
printf '%s\n' '--- Nextflow archaic module ---'
nl -ba modules/local/archaic/main.nf | sed -n '1,130p'

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printf '%s\n' '--- IBDmix binding and empty-mask references ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- run-all gate ---'
nl -ba scripts/run-all.sh | sed -n '215,245p'
printf '%s\n' '--- Nextflow gate ---'
nl -ba main.nf | sed -n '902,930p'

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Reject tables built before masked codes were added.

Step 43 accepts an old DONE file without checking its stamp. genotypes then accepts the old table and writes empty mask BEDs. The missing calls cannot contradict segments, so results can retain the earlier segment inflation.

Add a table format marker that genotypes checks, and require users with old tables to rebuild them with scripts/setup.sh --archaic.

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[warning] 272-272: zip() without an explicit strict= parameter

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Review comment at @bin/archaic_report.py around lines 260 - 272:
Mark tables written by the current format and make genotypes validate that
marker before accepting a table; reject tables without it so users must rebuild
them with scripts/setup.sh --archaic. Preserve the existing masked-code handling
in this table_row flow.

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