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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 47, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky1142
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- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health [HHSN261200800001E]
- Genome Canada/Genome British Columbia [212SEQ/202SEQ]
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [FDN-143288]
- Genome Canada
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Tissues used in pathology laboratories are typically stored in the form of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples. One important consideration in repurposing FFPE material for next generation sequencing (NGS) analysis is the sequencing artifacts that can arise from the significant damage to nucleic acids due to treatment with formalin, storage at room temperature and extraction. One such class of artifacts consists of chimeric reads that appear to be derived from non-contiguous portions of the genome. Here, we show that a major proportion of such chimeric reads align to both the Watson' and Crick' strands of the reference genome. We refer to these as strand-split artifact reads (SSARs). This study provides a conceptual framework for the mechanistic basis of the genesis of SSARs and other chimeric artifacts along with supporting experimental evidence, which have led to approaches to reduce the levels of such artifacts. We demonstrate that one of these approaches, involving S1 nuclease-mediated removal of single-stranded fragments and overhangs, also reduces sequence bias, base error rates, and false positive detection of copy number and single nucleotide variants. Finally, we describe an analytical approach for quantifying SSARs from NGS data.
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