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VariantFilteration and Selectvariant (Mitochondrial mode) - Missing True Positive Variants

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    David Benjamin

    Jyoti Mridha This looks like a custom-made filtering pipeline.  It does not resemble our best practices.  The hard filtering most likely does very little since it is filtering based on several annotations -- QUAL, QD, ReadPosRankSum, MQRankSum -- that Mutect2 does not emit.

    Our recommendation is simply to run Mutect2 and FilterMutectCalls in mitochondria mode with default options.

    Finally, the zygosity emitted by Mutect2 is meaningless.  The VCF spec assumes an integer ploidy which is not appropriate for aneuploidy and heteroplasmy such as occurs in cancer and mitochondria.  A 0/1 genotype just means that a variant exists, which is totally redundant.

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