We present what is to our knowledge the most comprehensive set of human SVs to date as an integrated resource for future disease and population genetics studies. We estimate that individuals harbour a median of 18.4 Mbp of SVs per diploid genome, an excess contributed to a large extent by mCNVs (11.3 Mbp) and biallelic deletions (5.6 Mbp; Table 1). When collapsing mCNV sites carrying multiple copies as well as homozygous SVs onto the haploid reference assembly, a median of 8.9 Mbp of sequence are affected by SVs, compared to 3.6 Mbp for SNPs. Furthermore, 37,250 SVs have mapped breakpoints amounting to >113 Mbp of SV sequence resolved at the nucleotide-level. By mining homozygous deletions we identified over two hundred nonessential human genes, a set enriched for immunoglobulin domains that hence may reflect variation in the immune repertoire underlying inter-individual differences in disease susceptibility.
