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A method to avoid errors associated with the analysis of hypermutated viral sequences by alignment-based methods

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The human genome encodes for a family of editing enzymes known as APOBEC3 (apolipoprotein B mRNA editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide-like3). They induce context dependent G-to-A changes, referred to as "hypermutation", in the genome of viruses such as HIV, SIV, HBV and endogenous retroviruses. Hypermutation is characterized by aligning affected sequences to a reference sequence. We show that indels (insertions/deletions) in the sequences lead to an incorrect assignment of APOBEC3 targeted and non-target sites. This can result in an incorrect identification of hypermutated sequences and erroneous biological inferences made based on hypermutation analysis. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Viral sequencesIndels (insertions/deletions)HypermutationAPOBEC3Alignment

2015

Journal of biomedical informatics.

Journal of biomedical informatics.

ISSN:1532-0464
年,卷(期):2015.58
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