Research Article

Improved Variant Calling Accuracy by Merging Replicates in Whole-Exome Sequencing Studies

Table 1

Summary of WES samples divided into two groups (H and L).

GroupTotal reads (×106)Mapping rate (%)Target mapping (%)Mean depthaMapping rate with MQ < 10 (%)bMapping rate with MQ ≥ 20 (%)b

H64.0 (49.2–97.9)98.2 (95.9–99.2)49.7 (46.6–55.4)43.4 (34.2–65.8)10.4 (9.5–11.3)86.2 (84.0–87.7)
L57.2 (40.3–79.3)98.7 (97.6–99.2)49.1 (44.5–55.0)36.0 (29.5–53.0)10.8 (9.6–12.3)86.1 (84.4–87.6)

Mean depth across target regions.
bMQ denotes mapping quality.
Note that the range of values is shown in the parenthesis.