If I Care Only About Sbsnp Variants, What Is More Acurate: Genome Sequencing Or Genotyping?
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user56 ▴ 300

This builds on prior question http://www.biostars.org/post/show/11990/genotype-data-and-exome-sequencing-data-sensitivity/

If I care only about variants covered by dbSNP with an rsXYZ number and assuming I could do two things on a single clinical patient:

A) genotyping with some array (e.g., Affymetrix with 1M SNPs)

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B) exome sequencing, and filtering the resulting VCF file to only variants covered by dbSNP and of high quality

Which one will be more accurate?

I know that B can give me more data about indels and such but my clinical-implications-of-genome-data-knowledge-base gives me clinical advice only if it is a previously known variant. So I am more after a method which is most accurate. In fact I only need to know if the sequencing will be at least as accurate as genotyping. (assuming "average" sequencing vendor and pipeline)

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What is the biologic question you are trying to answer? Exome sequencing will actually give much less data about variants that a 1M snp array, but the 1M snp array may not give you the information you want.

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as far as I know after finding a significant variants by exome sequencing you should confirm it by sanger sequencing method.On the basis of read number you can decide about the sequence related to specific region if read number is good you should confirm by sanger sequencing.If read number is not enough it might be false result or coverage in that region is not good.

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If you are interested in more than just exome variants then you will have to do whole genome sequencing. If you want it to be as accurate as a genotyping array you will need quite a lot of sequencing depth to get sufficient coverage across all the same regions as covered by an Affy or Illumina 1M assay. Eventually this will be feasible and cost-effective with sequencing. But, I don't think we are there yet. Since you are only interested in established dbSNP variants, it seems the genotyping array makes a lot more sense for you and will save you a ton of money. Of course, this assumes that the current genotyping arrays have all the variants you are interested in.

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yes. current arrays do have all the variants I am after. The advantage of sequencing would be having data for other purposes.

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Definitely. The sequence data would be better for "other purposes". If you can afford to do WGS sequencing to 30-40X then it will probably be about as accurate and comprehensive as the arrays and give you a whole lot more. But, be prepared to spend a couple orders of magnitude more and don't forget to factor in the extra cost/effort you will need for analysis.

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user56 ▴ 300

These two papers are relevant for the question:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19420381

http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000832

Obtained from this discussion http://seqanswers.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-7641.html

which seem to indicates that WGS is better then genotyping.

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