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Ultraspecific somatic SNV and indel detection in single neurons using primary template-directed amplification

Luquette, L. J.; Miller, M. B.; Zhou, Z.; Bohrson, C. L.; Galor, A.; Lodato, M. A.; Gawad, C.; West, J.; Walsh, C. A.; Park, P. J.

2021-05-01 genomics
10.1101/2021.04.30.442032 bioRxiv
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Primary template-directed amplification (PTA) is an improved amplification technique for single-cell DNA sequencing. We generated whole-genome analysis of 76 single neurons and developed SCAN2, a computational method to accurately identify both clonal and non-clonal somatic (i.e., limited to a single neuron) single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and small insertions and deletions (indels) using PTA data. Our analysis confirms an increase in non-clonal somatic mutation in single neurons with age, but revises estimates for the rate of this accumulation to be 15 SNVs per year. We also identify artifacts in other amplification methods. Most importantly, we show that somatic indels also increase by at least 2 indels per year per neuron and that indels may have a larger impact on gene function than somatic SNVs in human neurons.

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