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Reveel: large-scale population genotyping using low-coverage sequencing data

Lin Huang, Bo Wang, Ruitang Chen, Sivan Bercovici, Serafim Batzoglou
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/011882
Lin Huang
1Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
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Bo Wang
1Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
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Ruitang Chen
1Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
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Sivan Bercovici
1Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
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Serafim Batzoglou
1Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
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Abstract

Population low-coverage whole-genome sequencing is rapidly emerging as a prominent approach for discovering genomic variation and genotyping a cohort. This approach combines substantially lower cost than full-coverage sequencing with whole-genome discovery of low-allele-frequency variants, to an extent that is not possible with array genotyping or exome sequencing. However, a challenging computational problem arises when attempting to discover variants and genotype the entire cohort. Variant discovery and genotyping are relatively straightforward on a single individual that has been sequenced at high coverage, because the inference decomposes into the independent genotyping of each genomic position for which a sufficient number of confidently mapped reads are available. However, in cases where low-coverage population data are given, the joint inference requires leveraging the complex linkage disequilibrium patterns in the cohort to compensate for sparse and missing data in each individual. The potentially massive computation time for such inference, as well as the missing data that confound low-frequency allele discovery, need to be overcome for this approach to become practical. Here, we present Reveel, a novel method for single nucleotide variant calling and genotyping of large cohorts that have been sequenced at low coverage. Reveel introduces a novel technique for leveraging linkage disequilibrium that deviates from previous Markov-based models. We evaluate Reveel’s performance through extensive simulations as well as real data from the 1000 Genomes Project, and show that it achieves higher accuracy in low-frequency allele discovery and substantially lower computation cost than previous state-of-the-art methods.

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Reveel: large-scale population genotyping using low-coverage sequencing data
Lin Huang, Bo Wang, Ruitang Chen, Sivan Bercovici, Serafim Batzoglou
bioRxiv 011882; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/011882
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Reveel: large-scale population genotyping using low-coverage sequencing data
Lin Huang, Bo Wang, Ruitang Chen, Sivan Bercovici, Serafim Batzoglou
bioRxiv 011882; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/011882

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