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Table 1 Workflow of filtering the pathogentic variant

From: A de novo SCN8A heterozygous mutation in a child with epileptic encephalopathy: a case report

 

Variants No.

Note

GATK Haplotype (Total variants from a trio targeted-exome sequencing)

20,076

total variants from a parent-proband trio targeted sequencing

1st round of Filtering criteria

 

variants were excluded using a hierachy of levels of filtering criteria

 proband wild-type

5971

exclude variants only in the parants but not in the proband

  intron> 30 bp

2490

 

  AF < 0.2 or AD< 4 or MQ < 35

1124

 

  SSR > =7 & AF < 0.3 indel

1178

 

  indel> 50 bp

4

 

After 1st round of filtering

 Variants No. in the proband

9309

a five-tier system of classification for variants (ACMG guidelines, 2015)

  Benign

8775

  Likely benign

158

  Uncertain significance

346

  Likely pathogenic

23

  Pathogenic

7

2rd round of filtering criteria

 Pathogenic/Likly Pathogenic/Uncertain significance & OMIM

368

overlap these 3 types of variants with OMIM

 segregation analysis

20

a specific variant in the target gene is observed to segregate with a phenotype or disease

 variants which are associated with patient’s clinical phenotype

1

SCN8A:c.3953(exon22)A > G, p.Asn1318Ser, AF = 70/174 = 0.4

AF: allele frequency

  

AD: allele depth

  

MQ: Mapping quality