scholarly journals Evaluation of Whole Exome Sequencing as an Alternative of BeadChip and Whole Genome Sequencing in Human Population Genetic Analysis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán Maróti ◽  
Zsolt Boldogkői ◽  
Dóra Tombácz ◽  
Michael Snyder ◽  
Tibor Kalmár

ABSTRACTUnderstanding the underlying genetic structure of human populations is of fundamental interest to both biological and social sciences. Advances in high-throughput genotyping technology have markedly improved our understanding of global patterns of human genetic variation. The most widely used methods for collecting variant information at the DNA-level include whole genome sequencing, which continues to remain costly, and the more economical solution of array-based techniques, as these are capable of simultaneously genotyping a pre-selected set of variable DNA sites in the human genome. The largest publicly accessible set of human genomic sequence data available today originates from exome sequencing that comprises around 1.2% of the whole genome (approximately 30 million base pairs). In this study, we compared the application of the exome dataset to the array-based dataset and to the gold standard whole genome dataset using the same population genetic analysis methods. Our results draw attention to some of the inherent problems that arise from using pre-selected SNP sets for population genetic analysis. Additionally, we demonstrate that exome sequencing provides a better alternative to the array-based methods for population genetic analysis. In this study, we propose a strategy for unbiased variant collection from exome data and offer a bioinformatics protocol for proper data processing.

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelley Paskov ◽  
Jae-Yoon Jung ◽  
Brianna Chrisman ◽  
Nate T. Stockham ◽  
Peter Washington ◽  
...  

Abstract Background As next-generation sequencing technologies make their way into the clinic, knowledge of their error rates is essential if they are to be used to guide patient care. However, sequencing platforms and variant-calling pipelines are continuously evolving, making it difficult to accurately quantify error rates for the particular combination of assay and software parameters used on each sample. Family data provide a unique opportunity for estimating sequencing error rates since it allows us to observe a fraction of sequencing errors as Mendelian errors in the family, which we can then use to produce genome-wide error estimates for each sample. Results We introduce a method that uses Mendelian errors in sequencing data to make highly granular per-sample estimates of precision and recall for any set of variant calls, regardless of sequencing platform or calling methodology. We validate the accuracy of our estimates using monozygotic twins, and we use a set of monozygotic quadruplets to show that our predictions closely match the consensus method. We demonstrate our method’s versatility by estimating sequencing error rates for whole genome sequencing, whole exome sequencing, and microarray datasets, and we highlight its sensitivity by quantifying performance increases between different versions of the GATK variant-calling pipeline. We then use our method to demonstrate that: 1) Sequencing error rates between samples in the same dataset can vary by over an order of magnitude. 2) Variant calling performance decreases substantially in low-complexity regions of the genome. 3) Variant calling performance in whole exome sequencing data decreases with distance from the nearest target region. 4) Variant calls from lymphoblastoid cell lines can be as accurate as those from whole blood. 5) Whole-genome sequencing can attain microarray-level precision and recall at disease-associated SNV sites. Conclusion Genotype datasets from families are powerful resources that can be used to make fine-grained estimates of sequencing error for any sequencing platform and variant-calling methodology.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. e21577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Renzoni ◽  
Diego O. Andrey ◽  
Ambre Jousselin ◽  
Christine Barras ◽  
Antoinette Monod ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 1328-1333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Alfares ◽  
Taghrid Aloraini ◽  
Lamia Al subaie ◽  
Abdulelah Alissa ◽  
Ahmed Al Qudsi ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yumi Enomoto ◽  
Takayuki Yokoi ◽  
Yoshinori Tsurusaki ◽  
Hiroaki Murakami ◽  
Makiko Tominaga ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sivakumar Shanmugam ◽  
Narender Kumar ◽  
Dina Nair ◽  
Mohan Natrajan ◽  
Srikanth Prasad Tripathy ◽  
...  

The genomes of 16 clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates were subjected to whole-genome sequencing to identify mutations related to resistance to one or more anti-Mycobacterium drugs. The sequence data will help in understanding the genomic characteristics of M. tuberculosis isolates and their resistance mutations prevalent in South India.


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