The Struggle to Find Reliable Results in Exome Sequencing Data
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE METHODS ARTICLEprovided by Frontiers - Publisher Connector published: 12 February 2014 doi: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00016 The struggle to find reliable results in exome sequencing data: filtering out Mendelian errors Zubin H. Patel 1,2 †, Leah C. Kottyan1,3 †, Sara Lazaro1,3 , Marc S. Williams 4 , David H. Ledbetter 4 , GerardTromp 4 , Andrew Rupert 5 , Mojtaba Kohram 5 , Michael Wagner 5 , Ammar Husami 6 , Yaping Qian 6 , C. Alexander Valencia 6 , Kejian Zhang 6 , Margaret K. Hostetter 7 , John B. Harley 1,3 and Kenneth M. Kaufman1,3 * 1 Division of Rheumatology, Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA 2 Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA 3 Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Affairs Medical Center – Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA 4 Genomic Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, USA 5 Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA 6 Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA 7 Division of Infectious Disease, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA Edited by: Next Generation Sequencing studies generate a large quantity of genetic data in a Helena Kuivaniemi, Geisinger Health relatively cost and time efficient manner and provide an unprecedented opportunity to System, USA identify candidate causative variants that lead to disease phenotypes. A challenge to these Reviewed by: studies is the generation of sequencing artifacts by current technologies. To identify and Tatiana Foroud, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA characterize the properties that distinguish false positive variants from true variants, we Goo Jun, University of Michigan, USA sequenced a child and both parents (one trio) using DNA isolated from three sources *Correspondence: (blood, buccal cells, and saliva).
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