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Conflicting AF estimates

siva
2017-10-25
2017-10-25
  • siva

    siva - 2017-10-25

    Hi I have several variants (especially those with almost hom-alt allele) that have different allele fraction estimates from DP4 and the AF= tag. for example
    DP=4088;AF=0.872798;SB=171;DP4=9,33,3329,685

    Here from DP4, the AF can be estimated to be about 0.98189 which is very different from what is published in the AF= tag. Could you please explain?

     
    • Andreas Wilm

      Andreas Wilm - 2017-10-26

      Hello,

      DP4 only lists the reference and variant base counts. There are usually
      other bases present as well, which are taken into account for computing AF.

      Hoping this explains the discrepancy,
      Andreas

      On 26 October 2017 at 04:58, siva siva80@users.sf.net wrote:

      Hi I have several variants (especially those with almost hom-alt allele)
      that have different allele fraction estimates from DP4 and the AF= tag. for
      example
      DP=4088;AF=0.872798;SB=171;DP4=9,33,3329,685

      Here from DP4, the AF can be estimated to be about 0.98189 which is very
      different from what is published in the AF= tag. Could you please explain?


      Conflicting AF estimates
      https://sourceforge.net/p/lofreq/discussion/general/thread/fe485707/?limit=25#1aed


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