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ArticleNature communications2025

K-mer analysis of long-read alignment pileups for structural variant genotyping.

Adam C English, Fabio Cunial, Ginger A Metcalf, Richard A Gibbs, Fritz J Sedlazeck

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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 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Population-scale Long-read Sequencing in themedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025
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  9. Pangenome discovery of missing autism variants.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Adam C EnglishBaylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center, Houston, TX, USA. Adam.English@bcm.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2451-4375
Fabio CunialBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Ginger A MetcalfBaylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Richard A GibbsBaylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Fritz J SedlazeckBaylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6040-2691

Funding

The Baylor-Hopkins Clinical Genomics Center for All of UsOT2OD002751 · OD · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI BOERWINKLE, ERIC A., DOHENY, KIMBERLY F · 2018 to 2023
$152.8M
Broad-Color: The Genome Center for the Future of All of UsOT2OD038121 · OD · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI Stacey Gabriel, Niall John Lennon · 2024 to 2026
$80.1M
GMKF competing renewalU24HD090743 · NICHD · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI Stacey Gabriel · 2016 to 2026
$68.3M
Frequency of variants of unknown significance by ancestry groups in the All of Us Research Program cohortU01HG011758 · NHGRI · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI RICHARD A GIBBS, JAMES R. LUPSKI · 2021 to 2026
$13.8M
NHGRI NIH HHS U01 HG011758NICHD NIH HHS U24 HD090743NIH HHS OT2 OD002751NIH HHS OT2 OD038121ODCDC CDC HHS OT2 OD002751ODCDC CDC HHS OT2 OD038121U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) 1U01HG011758-01U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | NIH Office of the Director (OD) 5U24HD090743
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurately genotyping structural variant (SV) alleles is crucial to genomics research. We present a novel method (kanpig) for genotyping SVs that leverages variant graphs and k-mer vectors to rapidly generate accurate SV genotypes. Benchmarking against the latest SV datasets shows kanpig achieves a single-sample genotyping concordance of 82.1%, significantly outperforming existing tools, which average 66.3%. We explore kanpig's use for multi-sample projects by testing on 47 genetically diverse samples and find kanpig accurately genotypes complex loci (e.g. SVs neighboring other SVs), and produces higher genotyping concordance than other tools. Kanpig requires only 43 seconds to process a single sample's 20x long-reads and can be run on PacBio or Oxford Nanopore long-reads.

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Genomic Structural VariationGenotyping TechniquesSequence AlignmentAlgorithmsAllelesGenomicsGenotypeHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansSequence Analysis, DNASoftware

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PMID40185777
PMCPMC11971316

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