Graph-based variant discovery reveals novel dynamics in the human microbiome
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| author | Muralidharan, Harihara Subrahmaniam Michaelis, Jacquelyn S Ghurye, Jay Treangen, Todd Koren, Sergey Fedarko, Marcus Pop, Mihai |
| author_facet | Muralidharan, Harihara Subrahmaniam Michaelis, Jacquelyn S Ghurye, Jay Treangen, Todd Koren, Sergey Fedarko, Marcus Pop, Mihai |
| contents | Sequence differences between the strains of bacteria comprising host-associated and environmental microbiota may play a role in community assembly and influence the resilience of microbial communities to disturbances. Tools for characterizing strain-level variation within microbial communities, however, are limited in scope, focusing on just single nucleotide polymorphisms, or relying on reference-based analyses that miss complex functional and structural variants. Here, we demonstrate the power of assembly graph analysis to detect and characterize structural variants in almost 1,000 metagenomes generated as part of the Human Microbiome Project. We identify over nine million variants comprising insertion/deletion events, repeat copy-number changes, and mobile elements such as plasmids. We highlight some of the potential functional roles of these genomic changes. Our analysis revealed striking differences in the rate of variation across body sites, highlighting niche-specific mechanisms of bacterial adaptation. The structural variants we detect also include potentially novel prophage integration events, highlighting the potential use of graph-based analyses for phage discovery. |
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| spellingShingle | Graph-based variant discovery reveals novel dynamics in the human microbiome Muralidharan, Harihara Subrahmaniam Michaelis, Jacquelyn S Ghurye, Jay Treangen, Todd Koren, Sergey Fedarko, Marcus Pop, Mihai Genomics Sequence differences between the strains of bacteria comprising host-associated and environmental microbiota may play a role in community assembly and influence the resilience of microbial communities to disturbances. Tools for characterizing strain-level variation within microbial communities, however, are limited in scope, focusing on just single nucleotide polymorphisms, or relying on reference-based analyses that miss complex functional and structural variants. Here, we demonstrate the power of assembly graph analysis to detect and characterize structural variants in almost 1,000 metagenomes generated as part of the Human Microbiome Project. We identify over nine million variants comprising insertion/deletion events, repeat copy-number changes, and mobile elements such as plasmids. We highlight some of the potential functional roles of these genomic changes. Our analysis revealed striking differences in the rate of variation across body sites, highlighting niche-specific mechanisms of bacterial adaptation. The structural variants we detect also include potentially novel prophage integration events, highlighting the potential use of graph-based analyses for phage discovery. |
| title | Graph-based variant discovery reveals novel dynamics in the human microbiome |
| topic | Genomics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01610 |