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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 96, Issue 6, Pages 894-912Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2015.04.011
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- Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT) [TBM-090878]
- Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) [G.A093.11N]
- European Union [324509]
- University of Leuven (KU Leuven)
- SymBioSys [PFV/10/016]
- Auxilio
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Methods for haplotyping and DNA copy-number typing of single cells are paramount for studying genomic heterogeneity and enabling genetic diagnosis. Before analyzing the DNA of a single cell by microarray or next-generation sequencing, a whole-genome amplification (WGA) process is required, but it substantially distorts the frequency and composition of the cell's alleles. As a consequence, haplotyping methods suffer from error-prone discrete SNP genotypes (AA, AB, BB) and DNA copy-number profiling remains difficult because true DNA copy-number aberrations have to be discriminated from WGA artifacts. Here, we developed a single-cell genome analysis method that reconstructs genome-wide haplotype architectures as well as the copy-number and segregational origin of those haplotypes by employing phased parental genotypes and deciphering WGA-distorted SNP B-allele fractions via a process we coin haplarithmisis. We demonstrate that the method can be applied as a generic method for preimplantation genetic diagnosis on single cells biopsied from human embryos, enabling diagnosis of disease alleles genome wide as well as numerical and structural chromosomal anomalies. Moreover, meiotic segregation errors can be distinguished from mitotic ones.
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