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ArticleCommunications biology2025

Genotyping short tandem repeats across copy number alterations, aneuploidies, and polyploid organisms.

Max A Verbiest, Elena Grassi, Andrea Bertotti, Maria Anisimova

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Article in Communications biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Max A VerbiestInstitute of Computational Life Sciences, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Wädenswil, Switzerland.
Elena GrassiDepartment of Oncology, University of Torino, 10060 Candiolo, Torino, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1066-927X
Andrea BertottiDepartment of Oncology, University of Torino, 10060 Candiolo, Torino, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8196-7608
Maria AnisimovaInstitute of Computational Life Sciences, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Wädenswil, Switzerland. maria.anisimova@zhaw.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8145-7966

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Abstract

Short tandem repeats (STRs) are a rich source of genetic variation, but are difficult to genotype. While specialized repeat variant callers exist, they typically assume a euploid human genome. This means recent findings regarding phenotypic effects of STR variants in human health and disease cannot be readily extended to polyploid organisms or cancer, which is characterised by copy number alterations (CNAs). Here we present ConSTRain, a novel STR variant caller that explicitly accounts for the copy number of loci in its genotyping approach. We benchmark ConSTRain using a euploid human 100X whole genome sequencing sample where it calls STR allele lengths for over 1.7 × 10

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AneuploidyDNA Copy Number VariationsGenotyping TechniquesMicrosatellite RepeatsPolyploidyGenome, HumanGenotypeHumans

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