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Structural variation on the human Y chromosome from population-scale resequencing.


ABSTRACT: AIM:To investigate the information about Y-structural variants (SVs) in the general population that could be obtained by low-coverage whole-genome sequencing. METHODS:We investigated SVs on the male-specific portion of the Y chromosome in the 70 individuals from Africa, Europe, or East Asia sequenced as part of the 1000 Genomes Pilot project, using data from this project and from additional studies on the same samples. We applied a combination of read-depth and read-pair methods to discover candidate Y-SVs, followed by validation using information from the literature, independent sequence and single nucleotide polymorphism-chip data sets, and polymerase chain reaction experiments. RESULTS:We validated 19 Y-SVs, 2 of which were novel. Non-reference allele counts ranged from 1 to 64. The regions richest in variation were the heterochromatic segments near the centromere or the DYZ19 locus, followed by the ampliconic regions, but some Y-SVs were also present in the X-transposed and X-degenerate regions. In all, 5 of the 27 protein-coding gene families on the Y chromosome varied in copy number. CONCLUSIONS:We confirmed that Y-SVs were readily detected from low-coverage sequence data and were abundant on the chromosome. We also reported both common and rare Y-SVs that are novel.

SUBMITTER: Espinosa JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4500966 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Structural variation on the human Y chromosome from population-scale resequencing.

Espinosa Jose Rodrigo Flores JR   Ayub Qasim Q   Chen Yuan Y   Xue Yali Y   Tyler-Smith Chris C  

Croatian medical journal 20150601 3


<h4>Aim</h4>To investigate the information about Y-structural variants (SVs) in the general population that could be obtained by low-coverage whole-genome sequencing.<h4>Methods</h4>We investigated SVs on the male-specific portion of the Y chromosome in the 70 individuals from Africa, Europe, or East Asia sequenced as part of the 1000 Genomes Pilot project, using data from this project and from additional studies on the same samples. We applied a combination of read-depth and read-pair methods t  ...[more]

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