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Potential sequencing error: S:Q1054E showing up in just Germany on all sorts of lineages #32

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corneliusroemer opened this issue Aug 21, 2022 · 1 comment

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corneliusroemer commented Aug 21, 2022

Looking at recent German sequences, I noticed that S:Q1054E has suddenly popped up all over the tree - not just in one but in all sorts of lineages.

It has also never appeared outside of Germany. That's very indicative of a sequencing error / artefact.

Could you check with the lab? That'd be great

Unfortunately it appears that the actual lab doing the sequencing is not provided in the GISAID metadata - it seems that the originating lab is the lab that did the PCR not the lab that did the sequencing.

It may be more useful to have the lab that did the sequencing listed there - as in this case there are a handful of labs with this error - but I strongly suspect it's in fact only one lab that did the sequencing for all the submitters.

For the large amount of money German labs get for each sequence (is it still >200 EUR) one should expect good quality and no errors like this that should easily be identified if the sequencing lab ran their sequences through e.g. Nextclade.

This issue is similar to #27 #30

Here's a covSpectrum query:
https://cov-spectrum.org/explore/World/AllSamples/Past6M/variants?aaMutations=S%3AQ1054E&

These are EPI_ISLs:
EPI_ISL_14432551
EPI_ISL_14414119
EPI_ISL_14432663
EPI_ISL_14520784
EPI_ISL_14414320
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EPI_ISL_14367877
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EPI_ISL_14402843
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EPI_ISL_14378924
EPI_ISL_13945683
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EPI_ISL_14414390
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EPI_ISL_13945843
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EPI_ISL_14378958
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Hi @corneliusroemer ,
thanks again for reporting!

Here, it also looks like a (sequencing) lab bias in the DESH data.
We are in contact with the lab.

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