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ArticleNature communications2025

SVLearn: a dual-reference machine learning approach enables accurate cross-species genotyping of structural variants.

Qimeng Yang, Jianfeng Sun, Xinyu Wang, Jiong Wang, Quanzhong Liu, Jinlong Ru, Xin Zhang, Sizhe Wang, Ran Hao, Peipei Bian and 8 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 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Qimeng Yang *Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9830-2466
Jianfeng Sun *Botnar Research Centre, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1274-5080
Xinyu WangKey Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
Jiong WangKey Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
Quanzhong LiuCollege of Information Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
Jinlong RuInstitute of Virology, Helmholtz Centre Munich - German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
Xin ZhangCollege of Information Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
Sizhe WangCollege of Information Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
Ran HaoCollege of Information Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
Peipei BianKey Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
Xuelei DaiKey Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7681-7338
Mian GongKey Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1785-0621
Zhuangbiao ZhangKey Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
Ao WangKey Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
Fengting BaiKey Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
Ran LiKey Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China.
Yudong CaiKey Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China. yudong.cai@nwafu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5902-0901
Yu JiangKey Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China. yu.jiang@nwafu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4821-3585

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Structural variations (SVs) are diverse forms of genetic alterations and drive a wide range of human diseases. Accurately genotyping SVs, particularly occurring at repetitive genomic regions, from short-read sequencing data remains challenging. Here, we introduce SVLearn, a machine-learning approach for genotyping bi-allelic SVs. It exploits a dual-reference strategy to engineer a curated set of genomic, alignment, and genotyping features based on a reference genome in concert with an allele-based alternative genome. Using 38,613 human-derived SVs, we show that SVLearn significantly outperforms four state-of-the-art tools, with precision improvements of up to 15.61% for insertions and 13.75% for deletions in repetitive regions. On two additional sets of 121,435 cattle SVs and 113,042 sheep SVs, SVLearn demonstrates a strong generalizability to cross-species genotype SVs with a weighted genotype concordance score of up to 90%. Notably, SVLearn enables accurate genotyping of SVs at low sequencing coverage, which is comparable to the accuracy at 30× coverage. Our studies suggest that SVLearn can accelerate the understanding of associations between the genome-scale, high-quality genotyped SVs and diseases across multiple species.

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Genomic Structural VariationGenotyping TechniquesMachine LearningAllelesAnimalsCattleGenome, HumanGenomicsGenotypeHumansSheep

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PMCPMC11897243

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