Characterizing sensitivity and coverage of clinical WGS as a diagnostic test for genetic disorders
Yan Sun, Fengxia Liu, Chunna Fan, Yaoshen Wang, Lijie Song, Zhonghai Fang, Rui Han, Zhonghua Wang, Xiaodan Wang, Ziying Yang, Zhenpeng Xu, Jiguang Peng, Chaonan Shi, Hongyun Zhang, Wei Dong, , Zhiyu Peng
This study evaluates the sensitivity and coverage of clinical whole-genome sequencing (WGS) for detecting genetic variants, finding that 40X mean depth achieves high sensitivity for SNVs and indels but not 100%.
BMC Medical Genomics · Apr 13, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics