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BIOINFORMATICS
卷 25, 期 24, 页码 3207-3212出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp579
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [T 532 GM007197-34, GM077959, R01 GM077959, T32 GM007197] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH084703-01, R01 MH084703] Funding Source: Medline
Motivation: Next-generation sequencing has become an important tool for genome-wide quantification of DNA and RNA. However, a major technical hurdle lies in the need to map short sequence reads back to their correct locations in a reference genome. Here, we investigate the impact of SNP variation on the reliability of read-mapping in the context of detecting allele-specific expression (ASE). Results: We generated 16 million 35 bp reads from mRNA of each of two HapMap Yoruba individuals. When we mapped these reads to the human genome we found that, at heterozygous SNPs, there was a significant bias toward higher mapping rates of the allele in the reference sequence, compared with the alternative allele. Masking known SNP positions in the genome sequence eliminated the reference bias but, surprisingly, did not lead to more reliable results overall. We find that even after masking, similar to 5-10% of SNPs still have an inherent bias toward more effective mapping of one allele. Filtering out inherently biased SNPs removes 40% of the top signals of ASE. The remaining SNPs showing ASE are enriched in genes previously known to harbor cis-regulatory variation or known to show uniparental imprinting. Our results have implications for a variety of applications involving detection of alternate alleles from short-read sequence data.
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