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PolyScan: An automatic indel and SNP detection approach to the analysis of human resequencing data

Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63108, USA

Small insertions and deletions (indels) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are common genetic variants that are thought to be associated with a wide variety of human diseases. Owing to the genome’s size and complexity, manually characterizing each one of these variations in an individual is not practical. While significant progress has been made in automated single-base mutation discovery from the sequences of diploid PCR products, automated and reliable detection of indels continues to pose difficult challenges. In this paper, we present PolyScan, an algorithm and software implementation designed to provide de novo heterozygous indel detection and improved SNP identification in the context of high-throughput medical resequencing. Tests on a human diploid PCR-based sequence data set, consisting of 90,270 traces from 13 genes, indicate that PolyScan identified 90% of the 151 consensus indel sites and 84% of the 1546 heterozygous indels previously identified by manual inspection. Tests on tumor-derived data show that PolyScan better identifies high-quality, low-level mutations as compared with other mutation detection software. Moreover, SNP identification improves when reprocessing the results of other programs. These results suggest that PolyScan may play a useful role in the post human genome project research era.

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Article published online before print. Article and publication date are at http://www.genome.org/cgi/doi/10.1101/gr.6151507

[Supplemental material is available online at www.genome.org and http://genome.wustl.edu/tools/software/polyscan.cgi.]

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