Reference exome data for Australian Aboriginal populations to support health-based research

Alexia L. Weeks, Heather A. D’Antoine, Melita McKinnon, Genevieve Syn, Dawn Bessarab, Ngiare Brown, Steven Y.C. Tong, Bo Reményi, Andrew Steer, Lesley Ann Gray, Michael Inouye, Jonathan R. Carapetis, Jenefer M. Blackwell, Timo Lassmann

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Abstract

Whole exome sequencing (WES) is a popular and successful technology which is widely used in both research and clinical settings. However, there is a paucity of reference data for Aboriginal Australians to underpin the translation of health-based genomic research. Here we provide a catalogue of variants called after sequencing the exomes of 50 Aboriginal individuals from the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia and compare these to 72 previously published exomes from a Western Australian (WA) population of Martu origin. Sequence data for both NT and WA samples were processed using an ‘intersect-then-combine’ (ITC) approach, using GATK and SAMtools to call variants. A total of 289,829 variants were identified in at least one individual in the NT cohort and 248,374 variants in at least one individual in the WA cohort. Of these, 166,719 variants were present in both cohorts, whilst 123,110 variants were private to the NT cohort and 81,655 were private to the WA cohort. Our data set provides a useful reference point for genomic studies on Aboriginal Australians.

Original languageEnglish
Article number129
Pages (from-to)1-7
Number of pages7
JournalScientific Data
Volume7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Apr 2020

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