The GENTRA Blood kit (Qiagen N.V.) was used for the isolation of genomic DNA from EDTA blood samples. The quantification and quality of the obtained DNA were assessed using the Qubit fluorometer (Qiagen N.V.). DNA was paired-end sequenced (read length of 150 base pair) as single-indexed genomic libraries using the Illumina Novaseq6000 (Illumina Inc., USA). Finally, raw reads were preprocessed by trimming the adapter sequences and removing the reads with 50% of low-quality nucleotides and fewer than 36 base pairs in length with fastp v0.23.1 [26 (link)].
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