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ArticleNature communications2019

Chiral DNA sequences as commutable controls for clinical genomics.

Ira W Deveson, Bindu Swapna Madala, James Blackburn, Chris Barker, Ted Wong, Kirston M Barton, Martin A Smith, D Neil Watkins, Tim R Mercer

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Liquid drop of DNA libraries reveals total genome information.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Ira W DevesonGarvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, 2010, NSW, Australia. i.deveson@garvan.org.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3861-0472
Bindu Swapna MadalaGarvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, 2010, NSW, Australia.
James BlackburnGarvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, 2010, NSW, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5216-8815
Chris BarkerGarvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, 2010, NSW, Australia.
Ted WongGarvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, 2010, NSW, Australia.
Kirston M BartonGarvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, 2010, NSW, Australia.
Martin A SmithGarvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, 2010, NSW, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2259-1713
D Neil WatkinsGarvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, 2010, NSW, Australia.
Tim R MercerGarvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, 2010, NSW, Australia. tmercer@altius.org.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chirality is a property describing any object that is inequivalent to its mirror image. Due to its 5'-3' directionality, a DNA sequence is distinct from a mirrored sequence arranged in reverse nucleotide-order, and is therefore chiral. A given sequence and its opposing chiral partner sequence share many properties, such as nucleotide composition and sequence entropy. Here we demonstrate that chiral DNA sequence pairs also perform equivalently during molecular and bioinformatic techniques that underpin genetic analysis, including PCR amplification, hybridization, whole-genome, target-enriched and nanopore sequencing, sequence alignment and variant detection. Given these shared properties, synthetic DNA sequences mirroring clinically relevant or analytically challenging regions of the human genome are ideal controls for clinical genomics. The addition of synthetic chiral sequences (sequins) to patient tumor samples can prevent false-positive and false-negative mutation detection to improve diagnosis. Accordingly, we propose that sequins can fulfill the need for commutable internal controls in precision medicine.

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GenomicsBase SequenceDNAHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMicrosatellite RepeatsMutationNanoporesNeoplasmsPolymerase Chain ReactionSequence AlignmentDNA

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PMCPMC6430799

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