In:
Genome Research, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Vol. 28, No. 11 ( 2018-11), p. 1709-1719
Abstract:
Whole-genome sequencing is increasingly used to identify Mendelian variants in clinical pipelines. These pipelines focus on single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) and also structural variants, while ignoring more complex repeat sequence variants. Here, we consider the problem of genotyping Variable Number Tandem Repeats (VNTRs), composed of inexact tandem duplications of short (6–100 bp) repeating units. VNTRs span 3% of the human genome, are frequently present in coding regions, and have been implicated in multiple Mendelian disorders. Although existing tools recognize VNTR carrying sequence, genotyping VNTRs (determining repeat unit count and sequence variation) from whole-genome sequencing reads remains challenging. We describe a method, adVNTR, that uses hidden Markov models to model each VNTR, count repeat units, and detect sequence variation. adVNTR models can be developed for short-read (Illumina) and single-molecule (Pacific Biosciences [PacBio] ) whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing, and show good results on multiple simulated and real data sets.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1088-9051
,
1549-5469
DOI:
10.1101/gr.235119.118
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Publication Date:
2018
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1483456-X
SSG:
12
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