Robin Beaumont
rnbeaumont.bsky.social
Robin Beaumont
@rnbeaumont.bsky.social
Reposted by Robin Beaumont
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November 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Reposted by Robin Beaumont
New paper on everyone’s favourite topic, QC!
We show why you should do genotype-level QC on your WGS data

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very real quotes about this paper -
“The most exciting, mind-blowing paper of the year!”
“On a par with Fisher 1918”
“I read it every night. Just so beautiful”
Genotype-level quality control substantially reduces error rates in population-scale whole-genome sequencing
Population-scale whole-genome sequencing data will contain many individual-level genotype errors, even after allele-level quality control (QC). We establish the need for genotype-level QC using UK Bio...
www.biorxiv.org
November 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM