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ploid or diploid in vcf for human?

Hi everybody

It is a naive question coz my background is CS. Should i use ploidy or diploid parameter for generating vcf for human exome data?

vcf exome data

Does that mean you are doing variant calling using GATK or similar? Ploidy = 2, or diploid, is the same.

yes doing variant calling. But using samtools and bcftools, so it is different in this pipleine. I will run both pipelines. I wanna know what should be used in human?

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Humans are mostly diploid, with exception of sex chromosomes and mitochondrial genome.

Thanks WouterDeCoster so much

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