scholarly journals Differentiating Genomic SNPs Using Allele Depth and Predicted Genotype

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saam Hasan

AbstractDifferentiating between genomic SNPs and other types of single nucleotide variants becomes a key issue in research aimed at studying the importance of these variants of a particular type in biological processes. Here we present an R based method for differentiating between genomic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and RNA editing sites. We use data from an earlier study of ours and target only the known dbsnp SNPs that we found in our study. Our method involves calculating the ratio of allele depth for ref and alt alleles and comparing that to the predicted genotype. We use the concept that editing levels should be different for each allele and thus should not reflect the ratio predicted by the genotype. The study yielded an accuracy rate ranging from 86 to over 90 percent at successfully predicted dbsnp entries as SNPs. Albeit this is in the absence of known RNA editing site vcf data to compare as a reference.

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niko Popitsch ◽  
Christian D Huber ◽  
Ilana Buchumenski ◽  
Eli Eisenberg ◽  
Michael Jantsch ◽  
...  

Abstract In animals, the most common type of RNA editing is the deamination of adenosines (A) into inosines (I). Because inosines basepair with cytosines (C), they are interpreted as guanosines (G) by the cellular machinery and genomically encoded G alleles at edited sites mimic the function of edited RNAs. The contribution of this hardwiring effect on genome evolution remains obscure. We looked for population genomics signatures of adaptive evolution associated with A-to-I RNA edited sites in humans and Drosophila melanogaster. We found that single nucleotide polymorphisms at edited sites occur 3 (humans) to 15 times (Drosophila) more often than at unedited sites, the nucleotide G is virtually the unique alternative allele at edited sites and G alleles segregate at higher frequency at edited sites than at unedited sites. Our study reveals that a significant fraction of coding synonymous and nonsynonymous as well as silent and intergenic A-to-I RNA editing sites are likely adaptive in the distantly related human and Drosophila lineages.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 3264-3270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael G. Mohsen ◽  
Debin Ji ◽  
Eric T. Kool

ATP-releasing nucleotides are employed to detect single nucleotide polymorphisms in a novel method that is sensitive, rapid, and isothermal.


2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. S75-S75
Author(s):  
Weifeng Zhu ◽  
Zhuoqi Liu ◽  
Daya Luo ◽  
Xinyao Wu ◽  
Fusheng Wan

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalind Arden ◽  
Nicole Harlaar ◽  
Robert Plomin

Abstract. An association between intelligence at age 7 and a set of five single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) has been identified and replicated. We used this composite SNP set to investigate whether the associations differ between boys and girls for general cognitive ability at ages 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, and 10 years. In a longitudinal community sample of British twins aged 2-10 (n > 4,000 individuals), we found that the SNP set is more strongly associated with intelligence in males than in females at ages 7, 9, and 10 and the difference is significant at 10. If this finding replicates in other studies, these results will constitute the first evidence of the same autosomal genes acting differently on intelligence in the two sexes.


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