Sequencing and de novo assembly of 150 genomes from Denmark as a population reference

Lasse Maretty; Jacob Malte Jensen; Bent Petersen; Jonas Andreas Sibbesen; Siyang Liu; Palle Villesen; Laurits Skov; Kirstine Christensen Belling; Christian Theil Have; José M G Izarzugaza; Marie Grosjean; Jette Bork-Jensen; Jakob Grove; Thomas D Als; Shujia Huang; Yuqi Chang; Ruiqi Xu; Weijian Ye; Junhua Rao; Xiaosen Guo; Jihua Sun; Hongzhi Cao; Chen Ye; Johan van Beusekom; Thomas Espeseth; Esben Nørgaard Flindt; Rune M Friborg; Anders E Halager; Stephanie Le Hellard; Christina M Hultman; Francesco Lescai; Shengting Li; Ole Lund; Peter Løngren; Thomas Mailund; Maria Luisa Matey-Hernandez; Ole Mors; Christian N S Pedersen; Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten; Patrick F Sullivan; Ali Syed; David Westergaard; Rachita Yadav; Ning Li; Xun Xu; Torben Hansen; Anders Krogh; Lars Bolund; Thorkild I A Sørensen; Oluf Pedersen; Ramneek Gupta; Simon Rasmussen; Søren Besenbacher; Anders D Børglum; Jun Wang; Hans Eiberg; Karsten Kristiansen; Søren Brunak; Mikkel Heide Schierup

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Sequencing and de novo assembly of 150 genomes from Denmark as a population reference

Lasse Maretty, Jacob Malte Jensen, Bent Petersen, Jonas Andreas Sibbesen, Siyang Liu, Palle Villesen, Laurits Skov, Kirstine Christensen Belling, Christian Theil Have, José M G Izarzugaza, Marie Grosjean, Jette Bork-Jensen, Jakob Grove, Thomas D Als, Shujia Huang, Yuqi Chang, Ruiqi Xu, Weijian Ye, Junhua Rao, Xiaosen GuoJihua Sun, Hongzhi Cao, Chen Ye, Johan van Beusekom, Thomas Espeseth, Esben Nørgaard Flindt, Rune M Friborg, Anders E Halager, Stephanie Le Hellard, Christina M Hultman, Francesco Lescai, Shengting Li, Ole Lund, Peter Løngren, Thomas Mailund, Maria Luisa Matey-Hernandez, Ole Mors, Christian N S Pedersen, Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten, Patrick F Sullivan, Ali Syed, David Westergaard, Rachita Yadav, Ning Li, Xun Xu, Torben Hansen, Anders Krogh, Lars Bolund, Thorkild I A Sørensen, Oluf Pedersen, Ramneek Gupta, Simon Rasmussen, Søren Besenbacher, Anders D Børglum, Jun Wang, Hans Eiberg, Karsten Kristiansen, Søren Brunak, Mikkel Heide Schierup

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Hundreds of thousands of human genomes are now being sequenced to characterize genetic variation and use this information to augment association mapping studies of complex disorders and other phenotypic traits. Genetic variation is identified mainly by mapping short reads to the reference genome or by performing local assembly. However, these approaches are biased against discovery of structural variants and variation in the more complex parts of the genome. Hence, large-scale de novo assembly is needed. Here we show that it is possible to construct excellent de novo assemblies from high-coverage sequencing with mate-pair libraries extending up to 20 kilobases. We report de novo assemblies of 150 individuals (50 trios) from the GenomeDenmark project. The quality of these assemblies is similar to those obtained using the more expensive long-read technology. We use the assemblies to identify a rich set of structural variants including many novel insertions and demonstrate how this variant catalogue enables further deciphering of known association mapping signals. We leverage the assemblies to provide 100 completely resolved major histocompatibility complex haplotypes and to resolve major parts of the Y chromosome. Our study provides a regional reference genome that we expect will improve the power of future association mapping studies and hence pave the way for precision medicine initiatives, which now are being launched in many countries including Denmark.

Original language	English
Journal	Nature
Volume	548
Issue	7665
Pages (from-to)	87-91
Number of pages	5
ISSN	0028-0836
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nature23264
Publication status	Published - 3 Aug 2017

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Maretty, L., Jensen, J. M., Petersen, B., Sibbesen, J. A., Liu, S., Villesen, P., Skov, L., Belling, K. C., Theil Have, C., Izarzugaza, J. M. G., Grosjean, M., Bork-Jensen, J., Grove, J., Als, T. D., Huang, S., Chang, Y., Xu, R., Ye, W., Rao, J., ... Schierup, M. H. (2017). Sequencing and de novo assembly of 150 genomes from Denmark as a population reference. Nature, 548(7665), 87-91. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature23264

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