Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

LinkedSV for detection of mosaic structural variants from linked-read exome and genome sequencing data

  • Li Fang,
  • Charlly Kao,
  • Michael V. Gonzalez,
  • Fernanda A. Mafra,
  • Renata Pellegrino da Silva,
  • Mingyao Li,
  • Sören-Sebastian Wenzel,
  • Katharina Wimmer,
  • Hakon Hakonarson,
  • Kai Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13397-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Compared to single nucleotide variants and short indels, structural variants (SVs) are often more challenging to detect using high-throughput sequencing based methods. Here, the authors develop LinkedSV, a computational tool for SV detection using linked-read exome and genome sequencing data.