Mathieu Quinodoz, Karolina Kaminska, Francesca Cancellieri, Ji Hoon Han, Virginie G Peter, Elifnaz Celik, Lucas Janeschitz-Kriegl, Nils Schärer, Daniela Hauenstein, Bence György, Giacomo Calzetti, Vincent Hahaut, Sónia Custódio, Ana Cristina Sousa, Yuko Wada, Yusuke Murakami, Almudena Avila Fernández, Cristina Rodilla Hernández, Pablo Minguez, Carmen Ayuso, Koji M Nishiguchi, Cristina Santos, Luisa Coutinho Santos, Viet H Tran, Veronika Vaclavik, Hendrik P N Scholl, Carlo Rivolta
Copy-number variants (CNVs) play a substantial role in the molecular pathogenesis of hereditary disease and cancer, as well as in normal human interindividual variation. However, they are still rather difficult to identify in mainstream sequencing projects, especially involving exome sequencing, because they often occur in DNA regions that are not targeted for analysis. To overcome this problem, we developed OFF-PEAK, a user-friendly CNV detection tool that builds on a denoising approach and the use of "off-target" DNA reads, which are usually discarded by sequencing pipelines...
March 19, 2024: American Journal of Human Genetics