Assembly and diploid architecture of an individual human genome via single-molecule technologies

Matthew Pendleton, Robert Sebra, Andy Wing Chun Pang, Ajay Ummat, Oscar Franzen, Tobias Rausch, Adrian M. Stütz, William Stedman, Thomas Anantharaman, Alex Hastie, Heng Dai, Markus Hsi Yang Fritz, Han Cao, Ariella Cohain, Gintaras Deikus, Russell E. Durrett, Scott C. Blanchard, Roger Altman, Chen Shan Chin, Yan GuoEllen E. Paxinos, Jan O. Korbel, Robert B. Darnell, W. Richard McCombie, Pui Yan Kwok, Christopher E. Mason, Eric E. Schadt, Ali Bashir

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Abstract

We present the first comprehensive analysis of a diploid human genome that combines single-molecule sequencing with single-molecule genome maps. Our hybrid assembly markedly improves upon the contiguity observed from traditional shotgun sequencing approaches, with scaffold N50 values approaching 30 Mb, and we identified complex structural variants (SVs) missed by other high-throughput approaches. Furthermore, by combining Illumina short-read data with long reads, we phased both single-nucleotide variants and SVs, generating haplotypes with over 99% consistency with previous trio-based studies. Our work shows that it is now possible to integrate single-molecule and high-throughput sequence data to generate de novo assembled genomes that approach reference quality.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)780-786
Number of pages7
JournalNature Methods
Volume12
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 30 Jul 2015

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