Assessing reproducibility of inherited variants detected with short-read whole genome sequencing.

TitleAssessing reproducibility of inherited variants detected with short-read whole genome sequencing.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2022
AuthorsPan, B, Ren, L, Onuchic, V, Guan, M, Kusko, R, Bruinsma, S, Trigg, L, Scherer, A, Ning, B, Zhang, C, Glidewell-Kenney, C, Xiao, C, Donaldson, E, Sedlazeck, FJ, Schroth, G, Yavas, G, Grunenwald, H, Chen, H, Meinholz, H, Meehan, J, Wang, J, Yang, J, Foox, J, Shang, J, Miclaus, K, Dong, L, Shi, L, Mohiyuddin, M, Pirooznia, M, Gong, P, Golshani, R, Wolfinger, R, Lababidi, S, Sahraeian, SMohammad E, Sherry, S, Han, T, Chen, T, Shi, T, Hou, W, Ge, W, Zou, W, Guo, W, Bao, W, Xiao, W, Fan, X, Gondo, Y, Yu, Y, Zhao, Y, Su, Z, Liu, Z, Tong, W, Xiao, W, Zook, JM, Zheng, Y, Hong, H
JournalGenome Biol
Volume23
Issue1
Pagination2
Date Published2022 Jan 03
ISSN1474-760X
KeywordsGenome, Human, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Humans, INDEL Mutation, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Reproducibility of Results, Whole Genome Sequencing
Abstract

BACKGROUND: Reproducible detection of inherited variants with whole genome sequencing (WGS) is vital for the implementation of precision medicine and is a complicated process in which each step affects variant call quality. Systematically assessing reproducibility of inherited variants with WGS and impact of each step in the process is needed for understanding and improving quality of inherited variants from WGS.

RESULTS: To dissect the impact of factors involved in detection of inherited variants with WGS, we sequence triplicates of eight DNA samples representing two populations on three short-read sequencing platforms using three library kits in six labs and call variants with 56 combinations of aligners and callers. We find that bioinformatics pipelines (callers and aligners) have a larger impact on variant reproducibility than WGS platform or library preparation. Single-nucleotide variants (SNVs), particularly outside difficult-to-map regions, are more reproducible than small insertions and deletions (indels), which are least reproducible when > 5 bp. Increasing sequencing coverage improves indel reproducibility but has limited impact on SNVs above 30×.

CONCLUSIONS: Our findings highlight sources of variability in variant detection and the need for improvement of bioinformatics pipelines in the era of precision medicine with WGS.

DOI10.1186/s13059-021-02569-8
Alternate JournalGenome Biol
PubMed ID34980216
PubMed Central IDPMC8722114
Grant ListUM1 HG008898 / HG / NHGRI NIH HHS / United States

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