Copy number variants (CNVs) represent major etiologic factors in rare genetic diseases. Current clinical CNV interpretation workflows require extensive back-and-forth with multiple tools and databases. This increases complexity and time burden, potentially resulting in missed genetic diagnoses. We present the Suite for CNV Interpretation and Prioritization (SCIP), a software package for the clinical interpretation of CNVs detected by whole-genome sequencing (WGS). The SCIP Visualization Module near-instantaneously displays all information necessary for CNV interpretation (variant quality, population frequency, inheritance pattern, and clinical relevance) on a single page-supported by modules providing variant filtration and prioritization. SCIP was comprehensively evaluated using WGS data from 1027 families with congenital cardiac disease and/or autism spectrum disorder, containing 187 pathogenic or likely pathogenic (P/LP) CNVs identified in previous curations. SCIP was efficient in filtration and prioritization: a median of just two CNVs per case were selected for review, yet it captured all P/LP findings (92.5% of which ranked 1st). SCIP was also able to identify one pathogenic CNV previously missed. SCIP was benchmarked against AnnotSV and a spreadsheet-based manual workflow and performed superiorly than both. In conclusion, SCIP is a novel software package for efficient clinical CNV interpretation, substantially faster and more accurate than previous tools (available at https://github.com/qd29/SCIP , a video tutorial series is available at https://bit.ly/SCIPVideos ).
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