About the Authors

Tom Sante

Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Sarah Vergult

Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Pieter-Jan Volders

Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Wigard P. Kloosterman

Affiliation Department of Medical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Geert Trooskens

Affiliation BioBix, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Katleen De Preter

Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Annelies Dheedene

Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Frank Speleman

Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Tim De Meyer

Affiliation BioBix, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Björn Menten

bjorn.menten@UGent.be

Affiliation Center for Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS BM. Performed the experiments: TS SV AD. Analyzed the data: TS PJV AD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS PJV AD SV WPK TDM. Wrote the paper: TS BM SV. The structural variant clustering analysis: TS PJV. Guidance during algorithm design: BM GT TDM WPK KDP. Critical review/debugging of the different tools and algorithms used: TS SV KDP. Provided the sequencing data: SV BM GT WPK AD TDM. General supervision/guidance: FS BM TDM KDP. Validation of the software on the real sequence data: SV PJV TS AD.