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Table 5 False-positive rate

From: Assessment of clinical analytical sensitivity and specificity of next-generation sequencing for detection of simple and complex mutations

Change category

Sanger changes

Solid changes

No. of false positive

False positive rate

SNP

102

108

6

5.88%

Duplication / Insertion

9

9

0

0.00%

Deletion

7

10

3

42.86%

Indel

1

1

0

0.00%

Total (Overall)

119

128

9

7.56%

  1. Summary of false-positive rates per change category.