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ArticleNature communications2025

Statistical framework for calling allelic imbalance in high-throughput sequencing data.

Andrey Buyan, Georgy Meshcheryakov, Viacheslav Safronov, Sergey Abramov, Alexandr Boytsov, Vladimir Nozdrin, Eugene F Baulin, Semyon Kolmykov, Jeff Vierstra, Fedor Kolpakov and 2 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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Andrey Buyan *Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9105-4028
Georgy Meshcheryakov *Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia.
Viacheslav Safronov *Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
Sergey AbramovVavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Alexandr BoytsovVavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Vladimir NozdrinFaculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-3053-1387
Eugene F BaulinMoscow Center for Advanced Studies, Moscow, Russia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4694-9783
Semyon KolmykovDepartment of Computational Biology, Sirius University of Science and Technology, Sirius, Krasnodar region, Russia.
Jeff VierstraAltius Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6406-8563
Fedor KolpakovDepartment of Computational Biology, Sirius University of Science and Technology, Sirius, Krasnodar region, Russia.
Vsevolod J MakeevVavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. vsevolod.makeev@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9405-9748
Ivan V KulakovskiyInstitute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia. ivan.kulakovskiy@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6554-8128

Funding

Russian Science Foundation (RSF) 20-74-10075
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-throughput sequencing facilitates large-scale studies of gene regulation and allows tracing the associations of individual genomic variants with changes in gene regulation and expression. Compared to classic association studies, the assessment of an allelic imbalance at heterozygous variants captures functional variant effects with smaller sample sizes, higher sensitivity, and better resolution. Yet, identification of allele-specific variants from allelic read counts remains challenging due to data-dependent biases and overdispersion arising from technical and biological variability. We present MIXALIME, a novel computational framework for calling allele-specific variants in diverse omics data with a repertoire of statistical models accounting for read mapping bias and copy number variation. We benchmark MIXALIME with DNase-Seq, ATAC-Seq, and CAGE-Seq data, and we demonstrate that the allelic imbalance highlights causal variants in GWAS results. Finally, as a showcase of the large-scale practical application of MIXALIME, we present an atlas of variants exhibiting allele-specific chromatin accessibility, built from thousands of available datasets obtained from diverse cell types.

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Allelic ImbalanceComputational BiologyHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingAllelesDNA Copy Number VariationsGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansModels, StatisticalPolymorphism, Single NucleotideSoftware

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PMID39966391
PMCPMC11836314

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