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11th Annual <strong>Sequencing</strong>, Finishing, and Analysis in the Future Meeting<br />

RELIABLE DETECTION OF COPY NUMBER<br />

VARIATIONS BASED ON DATA MINING APPROACHES<br />

Friday, 3rd June 14:40 La Fonda Ballroom Talk (OS‐9.03)<br />

Zbyszek Otwinowski, Maciej Puzio, Dominika Borek<br />

UT Southwestern Medical Center<br />

Copy number variations (CNVs) are important for understanding biology, and cancer development<br />

in particular. Despite significant progress in the development of tools for directly detecting CNVs<br />

in sequencing reads, no single tool detects all types of CNVs. This is because all tools analyze either<br />

explicitly or implicitly coverage variability in order to model its overdispersion, but they do not<br />

identify all sources of variations. There are many contributors to overdispersion other than CNVs,<br />

and these contributors vary significantly between experiments, resulting from biases in fragmentation<br />

and other steps of library preparation, systematic sequencing errors and artifacts of mapping.<br />

We designed a method to separate these artifactual contributions from the biological signal, i.e. the<br />

CNVs. By means of data mining, we map the patterns of artifactual variability on a genome of interest<br />

and then we correct the coverage distribution for these patterns so that the resulting distribution<br />

can be used in efficient and reliable CNV detection. The reduction of overdispersion provides a<br />

very stringent validation criterion.<br />

The method also has great potential to further the analysis of pan‐genome CNVs variations and to<br />

determine whether particular CNVs represent a population or a private variant. For the latter, on<br />

average we expect different phenotypic effect.<br />

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