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Such allelic imbalance can result from a variety of cis-acting causes, including disruptive mutations within one copy of a gene that impact the stability of transcripts, as well as regulatory variants outside the gene that impact transcription initiation. Current methods for ASE estimation suffer from a number of shortcomings, such as relying on only one variant within a gene, assuming perfect phasing information across multiple variants within a gene, or failing to account for alignment biases and possible genotyping errors.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We developed BEASTIE, a Bayesian hierarchical model designed for precise ASE quantification at the gene level, based on given genotypes and RNA-Seq data. BEASTIE addresses the complexities of allelic mapping bias, genotyping error, and phasing errors by incorporating empirical phasing error rates derived from Genome-in-a-Bottle individual NA12878. BEASTIE surpasses existing methods in accuracy, especially in scenarios with high phasing errors. This improvement is critical for identifying rare genetic variants often obscured by such errors. Through rigorous validation on simulated data and application to real data from the 1000 Genomes Project, we establish the robustness of BEASTIE. 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