Overcoming challenges in variant calling: exploring sequence diversity in candidate genes for plant development in perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne)

Autor: Hilde Muylle, Stephen Byrne, Elisabeth Veeckman, Frederik van Parijs, Sabine Van Glabeke, Tom Ruttink, Antje Rohde, Klaas Vandepoele, Isabel Roldán-Ruiz, Annelies Haegeman, Bruno Studer, Torben Asp
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Veeckman, E, Van Glabeke, S, Haegeman, A, Muylle, H, Van Parijs, F R D, Byrne, S L, Asp, T, Studer, B, Rohde, A, Roldán-Ruiz, I, Vandepoele, K & Ruttink, T 2019, ' Overcoming challenges in variant calling : Exploring sequence diversity in candidate genes for plant development in perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) ', DNA Research, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 1-12 . https://doi.org/10.1093/dnares/dsy033
DNA RESEARCH
DNA Research: An International Journal for Rapid Publication of Reports on Genes and Genomes
ISSN: 1756-1663
1340-2838
DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsy033
Popis: Revealing DNA sequence variation within the Lolium perenne genepool is important for genetic analysis and development of breeding applications. We reviewed current literature on plant development to select candidate genes in pathways that control agronomic traits, and identified 503 orthologues in L. perenne. Using targeted resequencing, we constructed a comprehensive catalogue of genomic variation for a L. perenne germplasm collection of 736 genotypes derived from current cultivars, breeding material and wild accessions. To overcome challenges of variant calling in heterogeneous outbreeding species, we used two complementary strategies to explore sequence diversity. First, four variant calling pipelines were integrated with the VariantMetaCaller to reach maximal sensitivity. Additional multiplex amplicon sequencing was used to empirically estimate an appropriate precision threshold. Second, a de novo assembly strategy was used to reconstruct divergent alleles for each gene. The advantage of this approach was illustrated by discovery of 28 novel alleles of LpSDUF247, a polymorphic gene co-segregating with the S-locus of the grass self-incompatibility system. Our approach is applicable to other genetically diverse outbreeding species. The resulting collection of functionally annotated variants can be mined for variants causing phenotypic variation, either through genetic association studies, or by selecting carriers of rare defective alleles for physiological analyses.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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