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Using de novo assembly to identify structural variation of complex immune system gene regions

Driven by the necessity to survive environmental pathogens, the human immune system has evolved exceptional diversity and plasticity. Several factors contribute to this including inheritable structural polymorphism of the underlying genes. To investigate this we generated data for a single healthy European individual (identified as HV31) using multiple long-read (PacBio Sequel II and Oxford Nanopore), short-read (Illumina HiSeq and MGI G400) and linked-read (10X Chromium and stLFR) sequencing platforms, and optical mapping using the Bionano Saphyr platform. DNA was extracted from monocytes or from peripheral blood mononuclear cells. We used these data to assemble a set of regions encoding components of the immune system and to investigate structural variation. The raw data and analysis results are deposited here for generate research use. A complete description of these data and results can be found in the accompanying article at https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.03.429586.

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Dataset ID Description Technology Samples
EGAD00001006979 Sequel 1
EGAD00001007042 unspecified 1
EGAD00001007043 PromethION 1
EGAD00001007044 unspecified 1
EGAD00001007045 unspecified 1
EGAD00001007046 unspecified 1
EGAD00001007047 Sequel 1
EGAD00001007048 unspecified 1
EGAD00001007049 1
EGAD00001007050 1
EGAD00001007761 1
Publications Citations
Using de novo assembly to identify structural variation of eight complex immune system gene regions.
PLoS Comput Biol 17: 2021 e1009254
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