Accurate identification of single-nucleotide variants in whole-genome-amplified single cells.

Dong, Xiao; Zhang, Lei; Milholland, Brandon; Lee, Moonsook; Maslov, Alexander Y; Wang, Tao; Vijg, Jan · Nat Methods · 2017

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Mutation analysis in single-cell genomes is prone to artifacts associated with cell lysis and whole-genome amplification. Here we addressed these issues by developing single-cell multiple displacement amplification (SCMDA) and a general-purpose single-cell-variant caller, SCcaller (https://github.com/biosinodx/SCcaller/). By comparing SCMDA-amplified single cells with unamplified clones from the same population, we validated the procedure as a firm foundation for standardized somatic-mutation analysis in single-cell genomics.

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