Minor Contamination
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Theoretical Method
Minor contamination check is done to see if a patient’s sample is contaminated with little DNA from another unrelated individual. This analysis is done using the ‘fingerprint’ SNPs identified in the .
The Minor Contamination Rate is the average (mean) minor allele frequency from homozygous fingerprint SNPs.
We define the homozygous SNPs as sites with less than 10% minor allele frequency in either the Normal sequence data (if available in the same run) or the current sample sequence data.
Technical Methods
Tool Used:
Waltz PileupMetrics
fingerprinting.py
Input
output_dir : Directory to write the Output files to
waltz_dir_A: Directory with waltz pileup files for target set A
waltz_dir_B: Directory with waltz pileup files for target set B
waltz_dir_A_duplex: Directory with waltz pileup files for Duplex target set A
waltz_dir_B_duplex: Directory with waltz pileup files for Duplex target set B
fp_config: File with information about the SNPs for analysis (MSK-ACCESS-v1_0-TilingaAndFpSNPs.txt)
title_file: Title File for the run
Output
FPResults/minorContamination.txt
MinorContaminationRate.pdf
Interpretations
Samples with Minor contamination rates of >0.002 are considered contamination.