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. 2019 Feb 14;27(6):980–988. doi: 10.1038/s41431-019-0343-3

Table 1.

Results from linked-read whole-exome sequencing of a trio using dried blood spots and whole-blood samples

Whole blood Dried blood spots
Father Mother Proband Average Father Mother Proband Average
Input DNA
Median molecule length (bp) 45,239 47,415 55,129 49,261 11,155 2425 15,643 9741
% DNA in molecules >20 kb 80 82 84 82 14 5 12 11
% DNA in molecules >100 kb 7 13 13 11 0.42 1.29 0.75 0.82
DNA loaded (ng) 1.14 1.58 1.17 1.30 0.20 0.29 0.30 0.26
GEM Performance
GEMs detected 1,472,690 1,627,223 1,450,403 1,516,772 1,236,375 1,235,548 1,124,027 1,198,650
Mean DNA per GEM (bp) 488,116 673,692 501,609 554,472 86,500 122,798 128,697 112,665
Sequencing and alignment
Number of reads 102,043,815 146,325,136 87,244,491 111,871,147 134,915,555 111,553,510 110,707,511 119,058,859
Fold coverage 66 94 56 72 77 67 61 68
Zero coverage 0.19 0.37 0.62 0.39 0.85 1.23 1.24 1.11
Median insert size (bp) 197 204 183 195 166 172 184 174
% bases on target 60 58 59 59 60 60 55 58
% fragments on target 60 59 59 59 60 60 56 59
% mapped reads 98 98 98 98 94 96 96 95
Avg. mapping quality 59 56 56 57 52 53 54 53
% duplication 17 24 28 23 40 43 45 43