Articles by Francesco Vallania in JoVE

Detection of Rare Genomic Variants from Pooled Sequencing Using SPLINTER

JoVE 3943 6/23/2012

Francesco Vallania¹, Enrique Ramos¹, Sharon Cresci², Robi D. Mitra¹, Todd E. Druley^1,3

¹Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, ³Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine

Pooled DNA sequencing is a fast and cost-effective strategy to detect rare variants associated with complex phenotypes in large cohorts. Here we describe the computational analysis of pooled, next-generation sequencing of 32 cancer-related genes using the SPLINTER software package. This method is scalable, and applicable to any phenotype of interest.