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Detection of Copy Number Alterations Using Single Cell Sequencing
Published on: February 17, 2017
Germline copy number polymorphisms involving larger than 100 kb are uncommon in normal subjects
Wennuan Liu1, Baoli Chang, Tao Li
1Center for Human Genomics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Background:
Recent studies using ROMA and Array-CGH suggest that germline copy number polymorphisms (CNPs) involving >100 kb are common in humans.
Methods:
In this study, we used the Affymetrix GeneChip 100K single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) mapping panel to further examine the type and frequency of germline CNPs in the genome. By utilizing the allele intensity data generated while genotyping approximately 116,000 SNPs among 23 subjects from 4 families, we were able to detect multiple CNPs.
Results:
However, in contrast to several previous studies, we found that CNPs >100 kb are rare in the genome but CNPs involving 100s-1,000s of base pairs are more common.
Conclusions:
We have demonstrated the utility of this approach, which has an important advantage over other methods because it is able to simultaneously assess both CNPs and SNPs, and therefore has great potential in genetic association studies of common diseases.
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