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Robust Benchmark Structural Variant Calls of An Asian Using State-of-the-art Long-read Sequencing Technologies

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GENOMICS PROTEOMICS & BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 192-204

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DOI: 10.1016/j.gpb.2020.10.006

Keywords

Asian benchmark; Reference material; Structural variation; Haplotype-resolved; Sanger validation

Funding

  1. National Key R&D Program of China
  2. [2017YFC0906501]

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Establishing high-confidence SV calls for a benchmark sample that has been characterized by multiple technologies provides a valuable resource for investigating SVs in human biology, disease, and clinical research.
The importance of structural variants (SVs) for human phenotypes and diseases is now recognized. Although a variety of SV detection platforms and strategies that vary in sensitivity and specificity have been developed, few benchmarking procedures are available to confidently assess their performances in biological and clinical research. To facilitate the validation and application of these SV detection approaches, we established an Asian reference material by characterizing the genome of an Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-immortalized B lymphocyte line along with identified benchmark regions and high-confidence SV calls. We established a high-confidence SV callset with 8938 SVs by integrating four alignment-based SV callers, including 109x Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) continuous long reads (CLRs), 22x PacBio circular consensus sequencing (CCS) reads, 104x Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) long reads, and 114x Bionano optical mapping plat-form, and one de novo assembly-based SV caller using CCS reads. A total of 544 randomly selected SVs were validated by PCR amplification and Sanger sequencing, demonstrating the robustness of our SV calls. Combining trio-binning-based haplotype assemblies, we established an SV benchmark for identifying false negatives and false positives by constructing the continuous high-confidence regions (CHCRs), which covered 1.46 gigabase pairs (Gb) and 6882 SVs supported by at least one diploid haplotype assembly. Establishing high-confidence SV calls for a benchmark sample that has been characterized by multiple technologies provides a valuable resource for investigating SVs in human biology, disease, and clinical research.

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