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Describing structural changes by extending HGVS sequence variation nomenclature

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New technologies allow rapid discovery of novel sequence variants among which those involving complex structural rearrangements. The description of such complex variants challenges the existing standard sequence variation nomenclature of the Human Genome Variation Society (HGVS, http://www.hgvs.org/mutnomen), because this mainly focuses on simple variants. Here, we suggest several extensions of the HGVS nomenclature guidelines to facilitate unambiguous description of complex sequence variants at the DNA level. These include: (1) nesting to support description of changes within inversions and duplications, and (2) composite changes to support concatenation of inserted sequences. The advantage of these additions is that inversions and duplications with small differences and more complex variants can be described without reverting to the less informative indel description. In addition, they should provide sufficient flexibility and consistency, thereby limiting alternative interpretations and ambiguous descriptions. The specifications should allow easy implementation in sequence variant nomenclature checkers (e.g., Mutalyzer, http://www.mutalyzer.nl/). We are extending the functionality of Mutalyzer to incorporate the latest version of the HGVS sequence variation nomenclature guidelines.

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Authors
Taschner, P. E. M., & den Dunnen, J. T.
Affiliations
Leiden University Medical Center (NL)
Corresponding author
Taschner, Peter E.M.
Venue
Human Mutation
Published
2011-03-15
Volume
32
Issue
5
Pages
507-511
ISSN
1059-7794 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2112245868
Cited by
61
References
4
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 4
FWCI
4.20
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Human Mutation (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Leiden Repository (Leiden University) (submittedVersion)
  • Trinity's Access to Research Output (TARA) (Trinity College Dublin) (submittedVersion)
Funders
European Commission (200754)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Keywords
HGVS nomenclature, structural variants, inversion, duplication, nesting
MeSH terms
Base Sequence, Humans, Terminology as Topic, Software, Genetic Variation, Genome, Human, Guidelines as Topic, Internet

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