The value of primary transcripts to the clinical and non-clinical genomics community: Survey results and roadmap for improvements.


Journal

Molecular genetics & genomic medicine
ISSN: 2324-9269
Titre abrégé: Mol Genet Genomic Med
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101603758

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
12 2021
Historique:
revised: 11 08 2021
received: 21 04 2021
accepted: 13 08 2021
pubmed: 27 8 2021
medline: 24 3 2022
entrez: 26 8 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Variant interpretation is dependent on transcript annotation and remains time consuming and challenging. There are major obstacles for historical data reuse and for interpretation of new variants. First, both RefSeq and Ensembl/GENCODE produce transcript sets in common use, but there is currently no easy way to translate between the two. Second, the resources often used for variant interpretation (e.g. ClinVar, gnomAD, UniProt) do not use the same transcript set, nor default transcript or protein sequence. Ensembl ran a survey in 2018 to sample attitudes to choosing one default transcript per locus, and to gather data on reference sequences used by the scientific community. This was publicised on the Ensembl and UCSC genome browsers, by email and on social media. The survey had 788 responses from 32 different countries, the results of which we report here. We present our roadmap to create an effective default set of transcripts for resources, and for reporting interpretation of clinical variants.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND
Variant interpretation is dependent on transcript annotation and remains time consuming and challenging. There are major obstacles for historical data reuse and for interpretation of new variants. First, both RefSeq and Ensembl/GENCODE produce transcript sets in common use, but there is currently no easy way to translate between the two. Second, the resources often used for variant interpretation (e.g. ClinVar, gnomAD, UniProt) do not use the same transcript set, nor default transcript or protein sequence.
METHOD
Ensembl ran a survey in 2018 to sample attitudes to choosing one default transcript per locus, and to gather data on reference sequences used by the scientific community. This was publicised on the Ensembl and UCSC genome browsers, by email and on social media.
RESULTS
The survey had 788 responses from 32 different countries, the results of which we report here.
CONCLUSIONS
We present our roadmap to create an effective default set of transcripts for resources, and for reporting interpretation of clinical variants.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34435752
doi: 10.1002/mgg3.1786
pmc: PMC8683622
doi:

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Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

e1786

Subventions

Organisme : Wellcome Trust
Pays : United Kingdom
Organisme : NHGRI NIH HHS
ID : U41 HG007234
Pays : United States

Informations de copyright

© 2021 The Authors. Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.

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Auteurs

Joannella Morales (J)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Aoife C McMahon (AC)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Jane Loveland (J)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Emily Perry (E)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Adam Frankish (A)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Sarah Hunt (S)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Irina M Armean (IM)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Paul Flicek (P)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Fiona Cunningham (F)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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