Building Population-Specific Reference Genomes: A Case Study of Vietnamese Reference Genome

Nguyen Dai Thanh, Pham Thi Minh Trang, Dang Thanh Hai, Nguyen Ha Anh Tuan, Le Si Quang, Bui Quang Minh, Dao Quang Minh, Pham Bao Son, Le Sy Vinh

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Abstract

The human reference genome is an essential tool for studying human genomes. The standard reference genome is constructed from genomes of a few donors. The 1000 genomes project has revealed a huge amount of genetic differences between diverse populations. It is therefore naturally questioned whether the standard reference genome can work well for all human genome studies or population-specific reference genomes are needed accordingly. In this paper, we present a pipeline for constructing and evaluating a population-specific reference genome. The pipeline was examined on building the Vietnamese reference genome from 100 Kinh Vietnamese genomes obtained from the 1000 genomes project. Experiments showed that the resulting Vietnamese reference genome was better than the standard reference genome at analyzing Vietnamese genomic data. It helped improve the quality of short reads mapping and genotype calling for Vietnamese genomes. The pipeline is applicable for building and evaluating other population-specific reference genomes. For the first time the Vietnamese reference genome, which is now available for further Vietnamese genome studies, was successfully built.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering, KSE 2015
EditorsBernard Merialdo, Duy-Dinh Le, Satoshi Tojo, Minh Le Nguyen, Duc Anh Duong
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages97-102
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781467380133
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Jan 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event7th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering, KSE 2015 - Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Duration: 8 Oct 201510 Oct 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering, KSE 2015

Conference

Conference7th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering, KSE 2015
Country/TerritoryViet Nam
CityHo Chi Minh City
Period8/10/1510/10/15

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