Abstract
Varying depth of high-throughput sequencing reads along a chromosome makes it possible to observe copy number variants (CNVs) in a sample relative to a reference. In exome and other targeted sequencing projects, technical factors increase variation in read depth while reducing the number of observed locations, adding difficulty to the problem of identifying CNVs. We present a hidden Markov model for detecting CNVs from raw read count data, using background read depth from a control set as well as other positional covariates such as GC-content. The model, exomeCopy, is applied to a large chromosome X exome sequencing project identifying a list of large unique CNVs. CNVs predicted by the model and experimentally validated are then recovered using a cross-platform control set from publicly available exome sequencing data. Simulations show high sensitivity for detecting heterozygous and homozygous CNVs, outperforming normalization and state-of-the-art segmentation methods.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 52 |
| Journal | Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:KEYWORDS: exome sequencing, targeted sequencing, CNV, copy number variant, HMM, hidden Markov model Author Notes: We thank our collaborators on the XLID project, Prof. Dr. H.-Hilger Ropers, Wei Chen, Hao Hu, Reinhard Ullmann and the EUROMRX consortium for providing the XLID data, validation of CNVs and for helpful discussion. We also thank Ho-Ryun Chung for suggestions. Part of this work was financed by the European Union's Seventh Framework Program under grant agreement number 241995, project GENCODYS.
Keywords
- CNV
- HMM
- copy number variant
- exome sequencing
- hidden Markov model
- targeted sequencing