Mitchell R. Vollger, Philip C. Dishuck, Melanie Sorensen, AnneMarie E. Welch, Vy Dang, Max L. Dougherty, Tina A. Graves-Lindsay, Richard K. Wilson, Mark J. P. Chaisson, Evan E. Eichler. Long-read sequence and assembly of segmental duplications. Nature methods, 16(1):88-94. 2019.
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Abstract:
We have developed a computational method based on polyploid phasing of long sequence reads to resolve collapsed regions of segmental duplications within genome assemblies. Segmental Duplication Assembler (SDA; https://github.com/mvollger/SDA ) constructs graphs in which paralogous sequence variants define the nodes and long-read sequences provide attraction and repulsion edges, enabling the partition and assembly of long reads corresponding to distinct paralogs. We apply it to single-molecule, real-time sequence data from three human genomes and recover 33-79 megabase pairs (Mb) of duplications in which approximately half of the loci are diverged (<99.8%) compared to the reference genome. We show that the corresponding sequence is highly accurate (>99.9%) and that the diverged sequence corresponds to copy-number-variable paralogs that are absent from the human reference genome. Our method can be applied to other complex genomes to resolve the last gene-rich gaps, improve duplicate gene annotation, and better understand copy-number-variant genetic diversity at the base-pair level.