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VNTRs are an important source of genetic variation, and have been associated with multiple Mendelian and complex phenotypes. However, the highly repetitive structures require reads to span the region for accurate genotyping. Pacific Biosciences HiFi sequencing spans large regions and is highly accurate but relatively expensive. Therefore, targeted sequencing approaches coupled with long-read sequencing have been proposed to improve efficiency and throughput. In this paper, we systematically explored the trade-off between targeted and whole genome HiFi sequencing for genotyping VNTRs. We curated a set of 10\u00a0,\u00a0787 gene-proximal (G-)VNTRs, and 48 phenotype-associated (P-)VNTRs of interest. Illumina reads only spanned 46% of the G-VNTRs and 71% of P-VNTRs, motivating the use of HiFi sequencing. We performed targeted sequencing with hybridization by designing custom probes for 9,999 VNTRs and sequenced 8 samples using HiFi and Illumina sequencing, followed by adVNTR genotyping. We compared these results against HiFi whole genome sequencing (WGS) data from 28 samples in the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC). With the targeted approach only 4,091 (41%) G-VNTRs and only 4 (8%) of P-VNTRs were spanned with at least 15 reads. A smaller subset of 3,579 (36%) G-VNTRs had higher median coverage of at least 63 spanning reads. The spanning behavior was consistent across all 8 samples. Among 5,638 VNTRs with low-coverage (\u00a0&lt;\u00a015), 67% were located within GC-rich regions (\u00a0&gt;\u00a060%). In contrast, the 40X WGS HiFi dataset spanned 98% of all VNTRs and 49 (98%) of P-VNTRs with at least 15 spanning reads, albeit with lower coverage. Spanning reads were sufficient for accurate genotyping in both cases. 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