Detection of long repeat expansions from PCR-free whole-genome sequence data
Egor Dolzhenko, Joke J.F.A. van Vugt, Richard J. Shaw, Mitchell A. Bekritsky, Marka van Blitterswijk, Giuseppe Narzisi, Subramanian S. Ajay, Vani Rajan, Bryan R. Lajoie, Nathan Johnson, Zoya Kingsbury, Sean Humphray, Raymond D. Schellevis, William J. Brands, Matt C. Baker, , Michael A. Eberle
The paper introduces ExpansionHunter, a tool for detecting long repeat expansions from PCR-free WGS data, achieving high sensitivity and specificity in identifying pathogenic expansions.
Genome Research · Nov 1, 2017Peer-reviewedBioinformatics