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Title:
Towards Better Understanding of Artifacts in Variant Calling from High-Coverage Samples
Authors:
Li, Heng
Publication:
eprint arXiv:1404.0929
Publication Date:
04/2014
Origin:
ARXIV
Keywords:
Quantitative Biology - Genomics
Comment:
Published version; Bioinformatics. 2014; 30:2843-51; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu356
Bibliographic Code:
2014arxiv1404.0929l

Abstract

Motivation: Whole-genome high-coverage sequencing has been widely used for personal and cancer genomics as well as in various research areas. However, in the lack of an unbiased whole-genome truth set, the global error rate of variant calls and the leading causal artifacts still remain unclear even given the great efforts in the evaluation of variant calling methods. Results: We made ten SNP and INDEL call sets with two read mappers and five variant callers, both on a haploid human genome and a diploid genome at a similar coverage. By investigating false heterozygous calls in the haploid genome, we identified the erroneous realignment in low-complexity regions and the incomplete reference genome with respect to the sample as the two major sources of errors, which press for continued improvements in these two areas. We estimated that the error rate of raw genotype calls is as high as 1 in 10-15kb, but the error rate of post-filtered calls is reduced to 1 in 100-200kb without significant compromise on the sensitivity. Availability: BWA-MEM alignment: http://bit.ly/1g8XqRt; Scripts: https://github.com/lh3/varcmp; Additional data: http://figshare.com/account/projects/1013
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