TY - JOUR A1 - Li, Ruiqiang A1 - Li, Yingrui A1 - Fang, Xiaodong A1 - Yang, Huanming A1 - Wang, Jian A1 - Kristiansen, Karsten A1 - Wang, Jun T1 - SNP detection for massively parallel whole-genome resequencing Y1 - 2009/06/01 JF - Genome Research JO - Genome Research SP - 1124 EP - 1132 DO - 10.1101/gr.088013.108 VL - 19 IS - 6 UR - http://genome.cshlp.org/content/19/6/1124.abstract N2 - Next-generation massively parallel sequencing technologies provide ultrahigh throughput at two orders of magnitude lower unit cost than capillary Sanger sequencing technology. One of the key applications of next-generation sequencing is studying genetic variation between individuals using whole-genome or target region resequencing. Here, we have developed a consensus-calling and SNP-detection method for sequencing-by-synthesis Illumina Genome Analyzer technology. We designed this method by carefully considering the data quality, alignment, and experimental errors common to this technology. All of this information was integrated into a single quality score for each base under Bayesian theory to measure the accuracy of consensus calling. We tested this methodology using a large-scale human resequencing data set of 36× coverage and assembled a high-quality nonrepetitive consensus sequence for 92.25% of the diploid autosomes and 88.07% of the haploid X chromosome. Comparison of the consensus sequence with Illumina human 1M BeadChip genotyped alleles from the same DNA sample showed that 98.6% of the 37,933 genotyped alleles on the X chromosome and 98% of 999,981 genotyped alleles on autosomes were covered at 99.97% and 99.84% consistency, respectively. At a low sequencing depth, we used prior probability of dbSNP alleles and were able to improve coverage of the dbSNP sites significantly as compared to that obtained using a nonimputation model. Our analyses demonstrate that our method has a very low false call rate at any sequencing depth and excellent genome coverage at a high sequencing depth. ER -