Affiliation:
1. Institute of Translational Biomedicine, St. Petersburg State University
Abstract
Alu repeats occupy a notable part of the human genome and greatly affect processes related to genome integrity maintenance. One of the basic methods for studying variation in a genome, including Alu repeats is genome sequencing followed by mapping the sequenced reads to a reference genome sequence. The key feature of the read alignment is the depth of reference genome region coverage by mapped reads. In this paper, a new method is proposed for analyzing the coverage of Alu repeats and their flanking regions by whole-genome sequencing reads and the distribution of mean coverage in two aforementioned region types is explored.
Publisher
The Russian Academy of Sciences
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