期刊
FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL-GENETICS
卷 57, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2021.102636
关键词
Massively parallel sequencing (MPS); Hybridization capture; Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP); Extended kinship; Historical remains; Degraded DNA
资金
- Defense Forensics and Biometrics Agency
- Department of Defense Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Emerging Capabilities and Prototyping, US Army Research Office
- Washington Headquarters Services Acquisition Directorate [W911NF-13-R-0006, W911NF-16-C-0085]
DNA-assisted identification of historical remains requires the genetic analysis of highly degraded DNA and a comparison to DNA from known relatives. In this study, SNP capture combined with next-generation sequencing on a benchtop platform was used to target single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and estimate distant kinship. The results showed that low-coverage SNP data can be recovered from degraded skeletal samples, enabling accurate kinship predictions.
DNA-assisted identification of historical remains requires the genetic analysis of highly degraded DNA, along with a comparison to DNA from known relatives. This can be achieved by targeting single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) using a hybridization capture and next-generation sequencing approach suitable for degraded skeletal samples. In the present study, two SNP capture panels were designed to target similar to 25,000 (25 K) and similar to 95,000 (95 K) nuclear SNPs, respectively, to enable distant kinship estimation (up to 4th degree relatives). Low-coverage SNP data were successfully recovered from 14 skeletal elements 75 years postmortem using an Illumina MiSeq benchtop sequencer. All samples contained degraded DNA but were of varying quality with mean fragment lengths ranging from 32 bp to 170 bp across the 14 samples. SNP comparison with DNA from known family references was performed in the Parabon Fx Forensic Analysis Platform, which utilizes a likelihood approach for kinship prediction that was optimized for low-coverage sequencing data with cytosine deamination. The 25 K panel produced 15,000 SNPs on average, which allowed for accurate kinship prediction with strong statistical support in 16 of the 21 pairwise comparisons. The 95 K panel increased the average SNPs to 42,000 and resulted in an additional accurate kinship prediction with strong statistical support (17 of 21 pairwise comparisons). This study demonstrates that SNP capture combined with massively parallel sequencing on a benchtop platform can yield sufficient SNP recovery from compromised samples, enabling accurate, extended kinship predictions.
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