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The human genome contains several hundred paralogous genes, many of which are known to harbor disease-associated CNVs. Existing exome CNV callers are primarily designed for rare CNV detection in uniquely mappable regions and are not well-suited for paralogous genes.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We describe a computational method (EdgeCopy) for copy number profiling of paralogous genes using whole-exome sequence data. EdgeCopy aggregates reads mapped to all copies of paralogous genes and relates observed read depth to copy number for multiple exome samples using an approximate composite likelihood function. The likelihood function is optimized using numerical optimization to obtain gene-level fractional copy number estimates that are discretized and refined using a Hidden Markov Model to obtain exon-level copy number estimates.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Benchmarking of Edgecopy using experimental copy number data showed high concordance (mean\u2009=\u20090.973) for six disease-associated paralogous genes. We evaluated performance using whole-exome data from approximately 2400 samples across five continental populations from the 1000 Genomes Project. EdgeCopy shows robust concordance with whole-genome sequencing based estimates (0.974\u20130.982) across populations and 130 paralogous genes spanning a wide range of copy-number variation. In comparison, copy number analysis using a state-of-the-art exome CNV caller failed to estimate copy number for paralogous genes with very high mapping ambiguity and showed much lower concordance (0.565) for CNV events compared to EdgeCopy (0.908).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Availability<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>EdgeCopy is freely available at https:\/\/github.com\/vibansal-lab\/edgecopy.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btag221","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,7]],"date-time":"2026-07-07T16:31:47Z","timestamp":1783441907000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Likelihood-based optimization enables accurate copy number estimation for paralogous genes using exome data"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"42","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-1420-8105","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sang 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