How to detect heterozygous Indels in exome dataset in humans?

12 December 2012 0 1K Report

Generally in illumina paired end sequences we are missing out on het indels and looks like its a common problem. Can anyone suggest something to overcome these and which could be helpful in calling these het indels.

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