Robust identification of deletions in exome and genome sequence data based on clustering of Mendelian errors
Kathryn B. Manheimer, Nihir Patel, Felix Richter, Joshua Gorham, Angela C. Tai, Jason G. Homsy, Marko T. Boskovski, Michael G. Parfenov, Elizabeth Goldmuntz, Wendy K. Chung, Martina K. Brueckner, Martin Tristani‐Firouzi, Deepak Srivastava, Jonathan G. Seidman, Christine E. Seidman, , Andrew J. Sharp
The paper introduces MEM, a method to identify deletion CNVs in WES and WGS trio data by clustering Mendelian errors, achieving high validation rates and detecting additional de novo deletions and contamination.
Human Mutation · Mar 11, 2018Peer-reviewedGenetics