Hi all,
We are having a little debate here that we would like some other insights into.
The problem is that we are doing targeted sequencing of a few hundred genes, and plan on looking for snps within those genes. the issue is that a subset of the genes, have some pseudogenes, and/or repetitive regions within them, that would prevent the reads from mapping uniquely to those genes. So we have two choices:
first would be to allow reads to map to multiple locations in the genome, which would include those repetitive regions within our target genes, and then do SNP calling specifically within the target regions.
or
second, be conservative with the alignments, and allow for reads to only map uniquely in the genome, and then do the SNP calling.
From our discussions, the advantage of the first approach would be that there may be some useful snps within those regions that would be able to see, which may be important for our disease or phenotype. We seem to be on the fence as to which approach to do and which would be better.
Just wanted to know if anyone may have a thought about this.
We are having a little debate here that we would like some other insights into.
The problem is that we are doing targeted sequencing of a few hundred genes, and plan on looking for snps within those genes. the issue is that a subset of the genes, have some pseudogenes, and/or repetitive regions within them, that would prevent the reads from mapping uniquely to those genes. So we have two choices:
first would be to allow reads to map to multiple locations in the genome, which would include those repetitive regions within our target genes, and then do SNP calling specifically within the target regions.
or
second, be conservative with the alignments, and allow for reads to only map uniquely in the genome, and then do the SNP calling.
From our discussions, the advantage of the first approach would be that there may be some useful snps within those regions that would be able to see, which may be important for our disease or phenotype. We seem to be on the fence as to which approach to do and which would be better.
Just wanted to know if anyone may have a thought about this.
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