Identify the human sample that causes cross-sample contamination
We use VerifyBamID to estimate the amount of cross-human-sample contamination, but we currently don't have means to identify the source of contamination. Is VerifyBamID capable of this task?
I posted an issue about this in VerifyBamID repo - https://github.com/Griffan/VerifyBamID/issues/33
Here is the text posted there:
"Can VerifyBamID be used to identify the source of contamination? That is, identifying the sample that is contaminating an intended sample.
For example, in a project with 100 EUR ancestry samples including sample X, let's assume that X is the source of contamination for 5 samples. VerifyBamID can be used to estimate the amount of contamination in those 5 samples, but can it also be used to identify which sample is the source of contamination?"