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  • Marisa_Miller
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    • Aug 2010
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    Undefined variants detected with SVDetect

    Hi everyone,

    I am just getting started using SVDetect and am having some trouble interpreting some strange results.

    I am using mapped 300 bp PE reads (some are trimmed to less than 300 mp) which have been filtered for "abnormally" mapped reads with the script provided with SVDetect (BAM_preprocessingPairs.pl). I still need to take a closer look at the abnormal reads to see what's going on with them. Mostly they should have an insert size less than or more than a certain cutoff, or they could have incorrect mapping orientation (not RF).

    After running SVDetect, I see that most of the variants are these strange "undefined" variants that all have a separation distance of 299-300 bp (see the example below). I have almost no insights as to what could be causing this, although it seems to be an artifact of some sort and probably not biologically relevant (although the reads are mapped to a mitochondrial genome which does have clusters of genes and repeats). Could this be caused by some reads being less than 300 bp (SVDetect is expecting 300 bp reads based on the input I gave it)? Some of the reads are quality trimmed and hence might be shorter than 300 bp.

    A small amount of the variants seem to be correct (based on previous published data). See the "Normal expected variants" below.

    Also, when I compare the variants (using links2compare in SVDetect) between two different samples (the samples are two different genotypes which are expected to have different variants compared to the reference) all of the undefined variants are in common, and only insertions/deletions/inversions are unique to the two samples.

    Any suggestions as to what could be causing the undefined variants would be greatly appreciated!

    Weird "undefined" variants
    Code:
    chr_type	SV_type	BAL_type	chromosome1	start1-end1	average_dist	chromosome2	start2-end2	nb_pairs	score_strand_filtering	score_order_filtering	score_insert_size_filtering	final_score	breakpoint1_start1-end1	breakpoint2_start2-end2
    INTRA	UNDEFINED	UNBAL	chrNC_007579.1	24705-25998	299	chrNC_007579.1	24706-25999	607	100%	100%	100%	1	24806-24705	25999-25898
    INTRA	UNDEFINED	UNBAL	chrNC_007579.1	38201-39491	299	chrNC_007579.1	38202-39492	568	100%	100%	100%	1	38299-38201	39492-39394
    INTRA	UNDEFINED	UNBAL	chrNC_007579.1	38704-39997	299	chrNC_007579.1	38705-39998	550	100%	100%	100%	1	38805-38704	39998-39897
    Normal expected variants
    Code:
    chr_type	SV_type	BAL_type	chromosome1	start1-end1	average_dist	chromosome2	start2-end2	nb_pairs	score_strand_filtering	score_order_filtering	score_insert_size_filtering	final_score	breakpoint1_start1-end1	breakpoint2_start2-end2
    INTRA	INVERSION	UNBAL	chrNC_007579.1	105503-106542	23335	chrNC_007579.1	128858-129910	312	100%	100%	-	1	105350-105503	128718-128858
    INTRA	INVERSION	UNBAL	chrNC_007579.1	156971-157791	28358	chrNC_007579.1	185278-186246	174	99%	100%	-	0.994	157791-158163	186246-186470

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