Structural Variants in Chinese Population

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"[h=1]Structural variants in Chinese population and their impact on phenotypes, diseases and population adaptation"[/h]
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.09.430378v1

"[FONT=&quot]A complete characterization of genetic variation is a fundamental goal of human genome research. Long-read sequencing (LRS) improves the sensitivity for structural variant (SV) discovery and facilitates a better understanding of the SV spectrum in human genomes. Here, we conduct the first LRS-based SV analysis in Chinese population. We perform whole-genome LRS for 405 unrelated Chinese, with 68 phenotypic and clinical measurements. We discover a complex landscape of 132,312 non-redundant SVs, of which 53.3% are novel. The identified SVs are of high-quality validated by the PacBio high-fidelity sequencing and PCR experiments. The total length of SVs represents approximately 13.2% of the human reference genome. We annotate 1,929 loss-of-function SVs affecting the coding sequences of 1,681 genes. We discover new associations of SVs with phenotypes and diseases, such as rare deletions in [/FONT]HBA1[FONT=&quot]/[/FONT]HBA2/HBB[FONT=&quot] associated with anemia and common deletions in [/FONT]GHR[FONT=&quot] associated with body height. Furthermore, we identify SV candidates related to human immunity that differentiate sub-populations of Chinese. Our study reveals the complex landscape of human SVs in unprecedented detail and provides new insights into their roles contributing to phenotypes, diseases and evolution. The genotypic and phenotypic resource is freely available to the scientific community."[/FONT]
 

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