HasDeNovoNonRefAllele

An allele of a proband variant is de novo if it does not appear in the genotype of either of the parents of the proband at this variant position.

The category HasDeNovoNonRefAllele is assigned to a proband variant if the variant meets all following criteria.

The variant has an allele that:
- Is not the same as the reference allele
- Does not appear in the genotype of the father
- Does not appear in the genotype of the mother
The coverage of the genotype of the father at this variant position is at least denovo_nonref_allele_min_father_coverage.
The coverage of the genotype of the mother at this variant position is at least denovo_nonref_allele_min_mother_coverage.

Note: The coverage parameters help avoid false-positive calls that might occur because the sequencing coverage is inadequate to call an accurate genotype. Without coverage information, the absence of a variant call for a parent is only absence of evidence, and does not exactly determine that the allele for the proband is de novo. To establish evidence of absence, the software requires that the parents be covered well enough that variants are called if actually present. Therefore the software requires that the position in both parents meets a coverage threshold.