Mind the gap: the relevance of the genome reference to resolve rare and pathogenic inversions

Chromosomal inversions (INV) are particularly challenging to detect due to their copy-number neutral state and association with repetitive regions. Inversions represent about 1/20 of all balanced structural chromosome aberrations and can lead to disease by gene disruption or altering regulatory regions of dosage sensitive genes in cis. Short-read genome sequencing (srGS) can only resolve ~70% of cytogenetically visible inversions referred to clinical diagnostic laboratories, likely due to breakpoints in repetitive regions. Here we study twelve inversions by srGS (n=3) or long read genome sequencing (lrGS) (n=9)

Type: Whole Genome Sequencing
Archiver: European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA)

1 Dataset

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Dataset ID	Description	Technology	Samples
EGAD50000000635	Pacbio Hifi whole genome sequencing data from six individuals carrying cytogenetically visible inversions. The HiFi data was produced on the PacBio Revio machine, using 1 flowcell per sample. The resulting data was aligned to hg19 using minimap2, and converted into bam using samtools.	unspecified	6