UCL Discovery
UCL home » Library Services » Electronic resources » UCL Discovery

Evaluation of the detection of GBA missense mutations and other variants using the Oxford Nanopore MinION

Leija-Salazar, M; Sedlazeck, FJ; Toffoli, M; Mullin, S; Mokretar, K; Athanasopoulou, M; Donald, A; ... Proukakis, C; + view all (2019) Evaluation of the detection of GBA missense mutations and other variants using the Oxford Nanopore MinION. Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine 10.1002/mgg3.564. (In press). Green open access

[thumbnail of Mullin_Evaluation of the detection of GBA missense mutations and other variants using the Oxford Nanopore MinION_VoR.pdf]
Preview
Text
Mullin_Evaluation of the detection of GBA missense mutations and other variants using the Oxford Nanopore MinION_VoR.pdf - Published Version

Download (1MB) | Preview

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Mutations in GBA cause Gaucher disease when biallelic and are strong risk factors for Parkinson's disease when heterozygous. GBA analysis is complicated by the nearby pseudogene. We aimed to design and validate a method for sequencing GBA using long reads. METHODS: We sequenced GBA on the Oxford Nanopore MinION as an 8.9 kb amplicon from 102 individuals, including patients with Parkinson's and Gaucher diseases. We used NanoOK for quality metrics, NGMLR to align data (after comparing with GraphMap), Nanopolish and Sniffles to call variants, and WhatsHap for phasing. RESULTS: We detected all known missense mutations in these samples, including the common p.N409S (N370S) and p.L483P (L444P) in multiple samples, and nine rarer ones, as well as a splicing and a truncating mutation, and intronic SNPs. We demonstrated the ability to phase mutations, confirm compound heterozygosity, and assign haplotypes. We also detected two known risk variants in some Parkinson's patients. Rare false positives were easily identified and filtered, with the Nanopolish quality score adjusted for the number of reads a very robust discriminator. In two individuals carrying a recombinant allele, we were able to detect and fully define it in one carrier, where it included a 55‐base pair deletion, but not in another one, suggesting a limitation of the PCR enrichment method. Missense mutations were detected at the correct zygosity, except for the case where the RecNciI one was missed. CONCLUSION: The Oxford Nanopore MinION can detect missense mutations and an exonic deletion in this difficult gene, with the added advantages of phasing and intronic analysis. It can be used as an efficient research tool, but additional work is required to exclude all recombinants.

Type: Article
Title: Evaluation of the detection of GBA missense mutations and other variants using the Oxford Nanopore MinION
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1002/mgg3.564
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1002/mgg3.564
Language: English
Additional information: © 2019 The Authors. Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Gaucher disease, GBA, long-read sequencing, mutation detection, mutation phasing, Oxford Nanopore MinION, Parkinson’s disease
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Clinical and Movement Neurosciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute > Research Department of Haematology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10066379
Downloads since deposit
86Downloads
Download activity - last month
Download activity - last 12 months
Downloads by country - last 12 months

Archive Staff Only

View Item View Item