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GENETICS IN MEDICINE
Volume 18, Issue 12, Pages 1282-1289Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/gim.2016.58
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homology; mappability; next-generation sequencing; pseudogene; whole-exome sequencing
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PURPOSE: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is now routinely used to interrogate large sets of genes in a diagnostic setting. Regions of high sequence homology continue to be a major challenge for short-read technologies and can lead to false-positive and false-negative diagnostic errors. At the scale of whole-exome sequencing (WES), laboratories may be limited in their knowledge of genes and regions that pose technical hurdles due to high homology. We have created an exome-wide resource that catalogs highly homologous regions that is tailored toward diagnostic applications. METHODS: This resource was developed using a mappability-based approach tailored to current Sanger and NGS protocols. RESULTS: Gene-level and exon-level lists delineate regions that are difficult or impossible to analyze via standard NGS. These regions are ranked by degree of affectedness, annotated for medical relevance, and classified by the type of homology (within-gene, different functional gene, known pseudogene, uncharacterized noncoding region). Additionally, we provide a list of exons that cannot be analyzed by short-amplicon Sanger sequencing. CONCLUSION: This resource can help guide clinical test design, supplemental assay implementation, and results interpretation in the context of high homology.
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