Cited by 1,140Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalitiesGenome Rearrangement AlgorithmsGenomics and Rare Diseases

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Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing

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Genomic structural variants (SVs) are abundant in humans, differing from other forms of variation in extent, origin and functional impact. Despite progress in SV characterization, the nucleotide resolution architecture of most SVs remains unknown. We constructed a map of unbalanced SVs (that is, copy number variants) based on whole genome DNA sequencing data from 185 human genomes, integrating evidence from complementary SV discovery approaches with extensive experimental validations. Our map encompassed 22,025 deletions and 6,000 additional SVs, including insertions and tandem duplications. Most SVs (53%) were mapped to nucleotide resolution, which facilitated analysing their origin and functional impact. We examined numerous whole and partial gene deletions with a genotyping approach and observed a depletion of gene disruptions amongst high frequency deletions. Furthermore, we observed differences in the size spectra of SVs originating from distinct formation mechanisms, and constructed a map of SV hotspots formed by common mechanisms. Our analytical framework and SV map serves as a resource for sequencing-based association studies.

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    The 156 individuals genotyped are representative of the populations from which they were sampled, so allele-frequency patterns reflect population-level properties.

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    The human reference genome assembly is a valid representation of the reference sequence for identifying structural variants.

    “identifying SVs as genomic differences relative to a human reference”
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Authors
1000 Genomes Project, Mills, R. E., Walter, K., Stewart, C., Handsaker, R. E., Chen, K., Alkan, C., Abyzov, A., Yoon, S. C., Ye, K., Cheetham, R. K., Chinwalla, A., Conrad, D. F., Fu, Y., Grubert, F., Hajirasouliha, I., Hormozdiari, F., Iakoucheva, L. M., Iqbal, Z., Kang, S., Kidd, J. M., Konkel, M. K., Korn, J., Khurana, E., Kural, D., Lam, H. Y. K., Leng, J., Li, R., Li, Y., Lin, C.-Y., Luo, R., Mu, X. J., Nemesh, J., Peckham, H. E., Rausch, T., Scally, A., Shi, X., Stromberg, M. P., Stütz, A. M., Urban, A. E., Walker, J. A., Wu, J., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z. D., Batzer, M. A., Ding, L., Marth, G. T., McVean, G., Sebat, J., Snyder, M., Wang, J., Ye, K., Eichler, E. E., Gerstein, M. B., Hurles, M. E., Lee, C., McCarroll, S. A., & Korbel, J. O.
Affiliations
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
  • Boston College (US)
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • University of Washington (US)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
  • Yale University (US)
  • Leiden University Medical Center (NL)
  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute (GB)
  • Stanford University (US)
  • Simon Fraser University (CA)
  • Centre for Human Genetics (GB)
  • Louisiana State University (US)
  • BGI Group (China) (CN)
  • European Molecular Biology Laboratory (DE)
  • University of California San Diego (US)
Corresponding author
Korbel, Jan O.
Venue
Nature
Published
2011-02
Volume
470
Issue
7332
Pages
59-65
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W2116126626
Cited by
1,140
References
49
Citations by year
2026: 14 · 2025: 37 · 2024: 54 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 41 · 2021: 62 · 2020: 61 · 2019: 68 · 2018: 55 · 2017: 70 · 2016: 81 · 2015: 113 · 2014: 117 · 2013: 117 · 2012: 128
FWCI
88.14
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Civil War Book Review (submittedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • Leiden Repository (Leiden University) (submittedVersion)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
  • ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (submittedVersion)
  • The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong) (submittedVersion)
  • Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (submittedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
  • PMC
Funders
  • Wellcome Trust (085532, 062023, 077009, 077192, 077014)
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research (NF-SI-0508-10212)
  • National Institutes of Health (5p41hg004221-03)
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R21AA022707)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH091350)
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (U54HG003067, U54HG003273, R01HG004719, U01HG005209, RC2HG005552, P41-HG004221)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM059290, R01GM081533)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genome Rearrangement Algorithms
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomics and Rare Diseases
Keywords
copy number variation, structural variants, deletion mapping, tandem duplication, insertion, gene deletion, human genetic variation
MeSH terms
Genetics, Population, Genotype, Humans, Reproducibility of Results, Genome, Human, Mutagenesis, Insertional, Sequence Deletion, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Gene Duplication, Genomics, DNA Copy Number Variations

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