CNV-P: a machine-learning framework for predicting high confident copy number variations

Background Copy-number variants (CNVs) have been recognized as one of the major causes of genetic disorders. Reliable detection of CNVs from genome sequencing data has been a strong demand for disease research. However, current software for detecting CNVs has high false-positive rates, which needs f...

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Autores principales: Taifu Wang, Jinghua Sun, Xiuqing Zhang, Wen-Jing Wang, Qing Zhou
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Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2021
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Sumario:Background Copy-number variants (CNVs) have been recognized as one of the major causes of genetic disorders. Reliable detection of CNVs from genome sequencing data has been a strong demand for disease research. However, current software for detecting CNVs has high false-positive rates, which needs further improvement. Methods Here, we proposed a novel and post-processing approach for CNVs prediction (CNV-P), a machine-learning framework that could efficiently remove false-positive fragments from results of CNVs detecting tools. A series of CNVs signals such as read depth (RD), split reads (SR) and read pair (RP) around the putative CNV fragments were defined as features to train a classifier. Results The prediction results on several real biological datasets showed that our models could accurately classify the CNVs at over 90% precision rate and 85% recall rate, which greatly improves the performance of state-of-the-art algorithms. Furthermore, our results indicate that CNV-P is robust to different sizes of CNVs and the platforms of sequencing. Conclusions Our framework for classifying high-confident CNVs could improve both basic research and clinical diagnosis of genetic diseases.