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Haplotype-resolved diverse human genomes and integrated analysis of structural variation
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Resolving genomic structural variation: Many human genomes have been reported using short-read technology, but it is difficult to resolve structural variants (SVs) using these data. These genomes thus lack comprehensive comparisons among individuals and populations. Ebert et al. used long-read structural variation calling across 64 human genomes representing diverse populations and developed new methods for variant discovery. This approach allowed the authors to increase the number of confirmed SVs and to describe the patterns of variation across populations. From this dataset, they identified quantitative trait loci affected by these SVs and determined how they may affect gene expression and potentially explain genome-wide association study hits. This information provides insights into patterns of normal human genetic variation and generates reference genomes that better represent the diversity of our species. Science , this issue p. eabf7117
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“Either the graphs needed to be constructed from variant calls against a reference 3,6,32 and, therefore, unable to properly represent nested variation while still suffering from some reference bias, or they were limited to only SVs 16 and unable to effectively be used for short-read mapping with current tools 6 .”
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“Previous studies have identified tens of megabases of sequence contained within structural variants (SVs) that are polymorphic within the population5.”
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“This provides a large set of fully phased human genome assemblies and outperforms earlier efforts on many levels of assembly quality5,16,60.”
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“In line with previous results5,54, we obtained high genotype concordance across all variant types and genomic contexts (Extended Data Fig. 9).”
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“Ebert et al.5 showed that using PanGenie, a pangenomic approach, with 32 samples, a subset of these variants could be genotyped in short-read genomes (about 13,000 genotyped on average, ranging from 12,000 to 15,000 per sample).”
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“The HGSVC and HPRC call sets are based on variant calls produced from haplotype-resolved assemblies of 32 and 44 samples, respectively5.”
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“For example, compared with Ebert et al.5, the average median base level accuracy is nearly an order of magnitude higher, the N50 contiguity is nearly double and the structural accuracy is higher33.”
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“This result confirms that short-read-based SV discovery relative to a linear reference genome misses a large proportion of SVs5,6,8.”
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“This result confirms that SV callers based on short reads alone miss a large proportion of SVs located in regions inaccessible by short-read alignments, which has been previously reposed by several studies5,8.”
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- Authors
- Ebert, P., Audano, P. A., Zhu, Q., Rodriguez-Martin, B., Porubsky, D., Bonder, M. J., Sulovari, A., Ebler, J., Zhou, W., Serra Mari, R., Yilmaz, F., Zhao, X., Hsieh, P., Lee, J., Kumar, S., Lin, J., Rausch, T., Chen, Y., Ren, J., Santamarina, M., Höps, W., Ashraf, H., Chuang, N. T., Yang, X., Munson, K. M., Lewis, A. P., Fairley, S., Tallon, L. J., Clarke, W. E., Basile, A. O., Byrska-Bishop, M., Corvelo, A., Evani, U. S., Lu, T.-Y., Chaisson, M. J. P., Chen, J., Li, C., Brand, H., Wenger, A. M., Ghareghani, M., Harvey, W. T., Raeder, B., Hasenfeld, P., Regier, A. A., Abel, H. J., Hall, I. M., Flicek, P., Stegle, O., Gerstein, M. B., Tubio, J. M. C., Mu, Z., Li, Y. I., Shi, X., Hastie, A. R., Ye, K., Chong, Z., Sanders, A. D., Zody, M. C., Talkowski, M. E., Mills, R. E., Devine, S. E., Lee, C., Korbel, J. O., Marschall, T., & Eichler, E. E.
- Affiliations
- Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (DE)
- University of Washington (US)
- The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine (US)
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Genome Biology Unit, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, 3720 15th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98195-5065, USA.
- German Cancer Research Center (DE)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Heinrich Heine University, Medical Faculty, Institute for Medical Biometry and Bioinformatics, Moorenstraße 20, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
- Broad Institute (US)
- BioNano Genomics (United States) (US)
- Yale University (US)
- Xi'an Jiaotong University (CN)
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (DE)
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
- University of Southern California (US)
- Genomes and Disease, Centre for Research in Molecular Medicine and Chronic Diseases (CIMUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
- University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
- European Bioinformatics Institute (GB)
- New York Genome Center (US)
- New York Genome Center, New York, NY 10013, USA.
- Temple University (US)
- Pacific Biosciences (United States) (US)
- Max Planck Institute for Informatics (DE)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- University of Chicago (US)
- Ewha Womans University (KR)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lee, Charles
- Korbel, Jan O.
- Marschall, Tobias
- Eichler, Evan E.
- ORCID
- Ebert, Peter
- Audano, Peter A.
- Zhu, Qihui
- Rodriguez-Martin, Bernardo
- Porubsky, David
- Bonder, Marc Jan
- Sulovari, Arvis
- Ebler, Jana
- Zhou, Weichen
- Serra Mari, Rebecca
- Yilmaz, Feyza
- Zhao, Xuefang
- Hsieh, PingHsun
- Lee, Joyce
- Kumar, Sushant
- Lin, Jiadong
- Rausch, Tobias
- Chen, Yu
- Ren, Jingwen
- Höps, Wolfram
- Ashraf, Hufsah
- Chuang, Nelson T.
- Yang, Xiaofei
- Munson, Katherine M.
- Lewis, Alexandra P.
- Fairley, Susan
- Tallon, Luke J.
- Clarke, Wayne E.
- Basile, Anna O.
- Byrska-Bishop, Marta
- Corvelo, André
- Evani, Uday S.
- Lu, Tsung-Yu
- Chaisson, Mark J. P.
- Chen, Junjie
- Li, Chong
- Brand, Harrison
- Wenger, Aaron M.
- Ghareghani, Maryam
- Harvey, William T.
- Raeder, Benjamin
- Hasenfeld, Patrick
- Regier, Allison A.
- Abel, Haley J.
- Hall, Ira M.
- Flicek, Paul
- Stegle, Oliver
- Gerstein, Mark B.
- Tubio, Jose M. C.
- Mu, Zepeng
- Li, Yang I.
- Shi, Xinghua
- Hastie, Alex R.
- Ye, Kai
- Chong, Zechen
- Sanders, Ashley D.
- Zody, Michael C.
- Talkowski, Michael E.
- Mills, Ryan E.
- Devine, Scott E.
- Lee, Charles
- Korbel, Jan O.
- Marschall, Tobias
- Eichler, Evan E.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2021-04-02
- Volume
- 372
- Issue
- 6537
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- PMC
- PMC8026704
- OpenAlex
- W3130788486
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- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (U24HG007497, R01HG002898, R01HD081256, 1U01HG010973, R01HG002385, R15HG009565, 1R35GM138212, 1OT3HL147154, 1R01HG007068-01A1, R01MH115957, R01GM130738)
- National Human Genome Research Institute (3UM1HG008901-03S1, 3UM1HG008901-04S2, K99HG011041, UM1HG008901)
- National Science Foundation of China (32070663)
- Wellcome (WT104947/Z/14/Z)
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (031L0184, 031L0181A)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (391137747, 395192176)
- European Research Council (773026, 716290)
- Topics
- 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
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genome Rearrangement Algorithms
- Keywords
- haplotype-resolved genome, structural variants, de novo genome assembly, long-read sequencing, strand-specific sequencing, transposable elements, expression quantitative trait loci, positive selection, human genetic variation
- MeSH terms
- Whole Genome Sequencing, Female, Genotype, Haplotypes, Humans, Male, Genetic Variation, Genome, Human, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Retroelements, Interspersed Repetitive Sequences, Quantitative Trait Loci, Population Groups, INDEL Mutation, Sequence Inversion, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
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