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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Outlier-based identification of copy number variations using targeted resequencing in a small cohort of patients with tetralogy of fallot |
| Creators Name: | Bansal, V., Dorn, C., Grunert, M., Klaassen, S., Hetzer, R., Berger, F. and Sperling, S.R. |
| Abstract: | Copy number variations (CNVs) are one of the main sources of variability in the human genome. Many CNVs are associated with various diseases including cardiovascular disease. In addition to hybridization-based methods, next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are increasingly used for CNV discovery. However, respective computational methods applicable to NGS data are still limited. We developed a novel CNV calling method based on outlier detection applicable to small cohorts, which is of particular interest for the discovery of individual CNVs within families, de novo CNVs in trios and/or small cohorts of specific phenotypes like rare diseases. Approximately 7,000 rare diseases are currently known, which collectively affect ~6% of the population. For our method, we applied the Dixon's Q test to detect outliers and used a Hidden Markov Model for their assessment. The method can be used for data obtained by exome and targeted resequencing. We evaluated our outlier- based method in comparison to the CNV calling tool CoNIFER using eight HapMap exome samples and subsequently applied both methods to targeted resequencing data of patients with Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), the most common cyanotic congenital heart disease. In both the HapMap samples and the TOF cases, our method is superior to CoNIFER, such that it identifies more true positive CNVs. Called CNVs in TOF cases were validated by qPCR and HapMap CNVs were confirmed with available array-CGH data. In the TOF patients, we found four copy number gains affecting three genes, of which two are important regulators of heart development (NOTCH1, ISL1) and one is located in a region associated with cardiac malformations (PRODH at 22q11). In summary, we present a novel CNV calling method based on outlier detection, which will be of particular interest for the analysis of de novo or individual CNVs in trios or cohorts up to 30 individuals, respectively. |
| Keywords: | Algorithms, Computational Biology, DNA Sequence Analysis, Exome, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Markov Chains, Tetralogy of Fallot |
| Source: | PLoS ONE |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Publisher: | Public Library of Science |
| Volume: | 9 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Page Range: | e85375 |
| Date: | 6 January 2014 |
| Official Publication: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0085375 |
| PubMed: | View item in PubMed |
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