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. 2013 Mar;20(3):224–236. doi: 10.1089/cmb.2012.0258

Table 2.

Measuring the Accuracy of CNV Break Points by Base Pairs Under Different Sequencing Depth and Mutation Rates Between Duplicated Segments

Mutation rate between duplicated segments Depth of coverage Length of predicted CNVs (bp) Length of overlap (bp) False discovery rate False negative rate
1% (504000 bp) 30X 506755 502183 0.9% 0.3%
  15X 506162 501291 1.0% 0.5%
  5X 507703 495074 1.8% 2.5%
0.5% (493000 bp) 30X 492271 488114 0.9% 1.0%
  15X 500460 488387 2.4% 0.9%
  5X 501139 483830 3.5% 1.9%
0.1% (492000 bp) 30X 469821 452120 3.8% 9.1%
  15X 465518 433495 6.9% 11.9%
  5X 462193 417340 9.7% 15.2%

False discovery rate is the ratio between length of false positive regions and total length of predicted CNVs, while false negative rate is the ratio between length of false negative regions and total length of true CNVs.