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A comparative study of structural variant calling in WGS from Alzheimer's disease families.

TitleA comparative study of structural variant calling in WGS from Alzheimer's disease families.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2024
AuthorsMalamon, JS, Farrell, JJ, Xia, LCharlie, Dombroski, BA, Das, RG, Way, J, Kuzma, AB, Valladares, O, Leung, YYee, Scanlon, AJ, Lopez, IAntonio Ba, Brehony, J, Worley, KC, Zhang, NR, San Wang, L-, Farrer, LA, Schellenberg, GD, Lee, W-P, Vardarajan, BN
JournalLife Sci Alliance
Volume7
Issue5
Date Published2024 May
ISSN2575-1077
KeywordsAlzheimer Disease, Humans, Whole Genome Sequencing
Abstract<p>Detecting structural variants (SVs) in whole-genome sequencing poses significant challenges. We present a protocol for variant calling, merging, genotyping, sensitivity analysis, and laboratory validation for generating a high-quality SV call set in whole-genome sequencing from the Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project comprising 578 individuals from 111 families. Employing two complementary pipelines, Scalpel and Parliament, for SV/indel calling, we assessed sensitivity through sample replicates (N = 9) with in silico variant spike-ins. We developed a novel metric, D-score, to evaluate caller specificity for deletions. The accuracy of deletions was evaluated by Sanger sequencing. We generated a high-quality call set of 152,301 deletions of diverse sizes. Sanger sequencing validated 114 of 146 detected deletions (78.1%). Scalpel excelled in accuracy for deletions ≤100 bp, whereas Parliament was optimal for deletions >900 bp. Overall, 83.0% and 72.5% of calls by Scalpel and Parliament were validated, respectively, including all 11 deletions called by both Parliament and Scalpel between 101 and 900 bp. Our flexible protocol successfully generated a high-quality deletion call set and a truth set of Sanger sequencing-validated deletions with precise breakpoints spanning 1-17,000 bp.</p>
DOI10.26508/lsa.202302181
Alternate JournalLife Sci Alliance
PubMed ID38418088
PubMed Central IDPMC10902710
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ePub date: 
24/02