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  • lre1234
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2011
    • 110

    #1

    How many unannotated SNPs?

    Hi All,
    I have a quick question. I'm doing some exome sequencing, and after all of the mapping, and annotating steps, I'm starting to go through the downstream analysis. One thing that I am looking at are the SNPs that are annotated (dbSNP, exac, TCGA, and other databases) versus what is not in those databases. One thing that I am finding is that of ~25000 variants pulled out of the exome data, only ~150 are not present (i.e. unannotated/novel). This seems like a very small amount. I'm not sure how many I would expect to get, but a few years ago when doing some exome seq I was getting about 3-5% of all SNPs to be unannotated. Out of curiosity, what are other people getting these days. Is it possible that with the vast amount of samples that have been sequenced, we are reaching the point where almost all variants will have been identified, with the exception of those few very rare or private ones?

    This is more of a curiosity thing than anything else.....
  • wdecoster
    Member
    • Oct 2015
    • 97

    #2
    The population you are studying will hugely influence this. If you are working on commonly sequenced individuals such as European Americans the frequency of "known" variants will be much compared to an isolated less-studied population.

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    • lre1234
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2011
      • 110

      #3
      I'm working with a standard Caucasian population group. Nothing of a isolated population which I agree would probably have a higher % of 'novel' variants.

      Generally, though for anyone that has done some exomes in the last few months, how many (or what %) of the identified variants were not in dbSNP/1000genomes/ExAc/or other databases? Just a general curiosity.

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