title: Copy number variation detection using next generation sequencing read counts.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A copy number variation (CNV) is a difference between genotypes in the number of copies of a genomic region. Next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies provide sensitive and accurate tools for detecting genomic variations that include CNVs. However, statistical approaches for CNV identification using NGS are limited. We propose a new methodology for detecting CNVs using NGS data. This method (henceforth denoted by m-HMM) is based on a hidden Markov model with emission probabilities that are governed by mixture distributions. We use the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm to estimate the parameters in the model.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A simulation study demonstrates that our proposed m-HMM approach has greater power for detecting copy number gains and losses relative to existing methods. Furthermore, application of our m-HMM to DNA sequencing data from the two maize inbred lines B73 and Mo17 to identify CNVs that may play a role in creating phenotypic differences between these inbred lines provides results concordant with previous array-based efforts to identify CNVs.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The new m-HMM method is a powerful and practical approach for identifying CNVs from NGS data.
authors.affiliation: Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA. hengwang@msu.edu.
authors.forename: Heng
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nettleton
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ying
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D032461:Chromosomes, Plant; D056915:DNA Copy Number Variations; D018745:Genome, Plant; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008390:Markov Chains; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D003313:Zea mays / Q000235:genetics
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