PMID- 26119888 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160530 LR - 20150825 IS - 1744-313X (Electronic) IS - 1744-3121 (Linking) VI - 42 IP - 5 DP - 2015 Oct TI - Towards allele-level human leucocyte antigens genotyping - assessing two next-generation sequencing platforms: Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine and Illumina MiSeq. PG - 346-58 LID - 10.1111/iji.12213 [doi] AB - Human leucocyte antigens (HLA) typing has been a challenge due to extreme polymorphism of the HLA genes and limitations of the current technologies and protocols used for their characterization. Recently, next-generation sequencing techniques have been shown to be a well-suited technology for the complete characterization of the HLA genes. However, a comprehensive assessment of the different platforms for HLA typing, describing the limitations and advantages of each of them, has not been presented. We have compared the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine (PGM) and Illumina MiSeq, currently the two most frequently used platforms for diagnostic applications, for a number of metrics including total output, quality score per position across the reads and error rates after alignment which can all affect the accuracy of HLA genotyping. For this purpose, we have used one homozygous and three heterozygous well-characterized samples, at HLA-A, HLA-B, HLA-C, HLA-DRB1 and HLA-DQB1. The total output of bases produced by the MiSeq was higher, and they have higher quality scores and a lower overall error rate than the PGM. The MiSeq also has a higher fidelity when sequencing through homopolymer regions up to 9 bp in length. The need to set phase between distant polymorphic sites was more readily achieved with MiSeq using paired-end sequencing of fragments that are longer than those obtained with PGM. Additionally, we have assessed the workflows of the different platforms for complexity of sample preparation, sequencer operation and turnaround time. The effects of data quality and quantity can impact the genotyping results; having an adequate amount of good quality data to analyse will be imperative for confident HLA genotyping. The overall turnaround time can be very comparable between the two platforms; however, the complexity of sample preparation is higher with PGM, while the actual sequencing time is longer with MiSeq. CI - (c) 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. FAU - Duke, J L AU - Duke JL AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4768-0846 AD - Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA. FAU - Lind, C AU - Lind C AD - Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA. FAU - Mackiewicz, K AU - Mackiewicz K AD - Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA. FAU - Ferriola, D AU - Ferriola D AD - Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA. FAU - Papazoglou, A AU - Papazoglou A AD - Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA. FAU - Derbeneva, O AU - Derbeneva O AD - Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA. FAU - Wallace, D AU - Wallace D AD - Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA. AD - Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. FAU - Monos, D S AU - Monos DS AD - Immunogenetics Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA. AD - Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20150627 PL - England TA - Int J Immunogenet JT - International journal of immunogenetics JID - 101232337 RN - 0 (HLA Antigens) SB - IM MH - *Alleles MH - Base Sequence MH - Cell Line MH - Genetic Loci MH - *Genome, Human MH - Genotyping Techniques/*methods MH - HLA Antigens/*genetics MH - High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing/*methods MH - Homozygote MH - Humans MH - Sequence Alignment EDAT- 2015/06/30 06:00 MHDA- 2016/05/31 06:00 CRDT- 2015/06/30 06:00 PHST- 2015/02/03 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/04/29 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2015/05/25 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/06/30 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/06/30 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/05/31 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1111/iji.12213 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Int J Immunogenet. 2015 Oct;42(5):346-58. doi: 10.1111/iji.12213. Epub 2015 Jun 27.