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Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) Genome Variants v3

Track collection: Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) Genome and Exome Variants

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Filters

Exclude variants with Quality/confidence score (QUAL) score less than
Exclude variants with these FILTER values:
 
AC0 (Allele count is zero after filtering out low-confidence genotypes (GQ < 20; DP < 10; and AB < 0.2 for het calls))
AS_VQSR (Failed Allele-Specific Variant Quality Score Recalibration threshold)
InbreedingCoeff (InbreedingCoeff < -0.3)
PASS (Passed all variant filters)
Minimum minor allele frequency (if INFO column includes AF or AC+AN):


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VCF configuration help

Data schema/format description and download
Source data version: Release 3.0 (October 16, 2019)
Assembly: Human Dec. 2013 (GRCh38/hg38)

Description

The gnomAD v3 track shows variants and derived information from 71,702 whole genomes (and no exomes), all mapped to the GRCh38/hg38 reference sequence. Most of the genomes from v2 are included in v3. For more detailed information on gnomAD v3, see the related blog post.

The gnomAD v2 tracks show variants from 125,748 exomes and 15,708 whole genomes, all mapped to the GRCh37/hg19 reference sequence and lifted to the GRCh38/hg38 assembly. The data originate from 141,456 unrelated individuals sequenced as part of various population-genetic and disease-specific studies collected by the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD), release 2.1.1. Raw data from all studies have been reprocessed through a unified pipeline and jointly variant-called to increase consistency across projects. For more information on the processing pipeline and population annotations, see the following blog post and the 2.1.1 README.

gnomAD v2 data are based on the GRCh37/hg19 assembly. These tracks display the GRCh38/hg38 lift-over provided by gnomAD on their downloads site.

On hg38 only, a subtrack "Gnomad mutational constraint" aka "Genome non-coding constraint of haploinsufficient variation (Gnocchi)" captures the depletion of variation caused by purifying natural selection. This is similar to negative selection on loss-of-function (LoF) for genes, but can be calculated for non-coding regions, too. Briefly, for any 1kbp window in the genome, a model based on trinucleotide sequence context, base-level methylation, and regional genomic features predicts expected number of mutations, and compares this number to the observed number of mutations using a Z-score (see Chen et al 2024 in the Reference section for details). The chrX scores were added as received from the authors, as there are no mutations available for chrX, they are more speculative than the ones on the autosomes.

For questions on the gnomAD data, also see the gnomAD FAQ.

Display Conventions

  • In mode, a vertical line is drawn at the position of each variant.
  • In mode, "ref" and "alt" alleles are displayed to the left of a vertical line with colored portions corresponding to allele counts. Hovering the mouse pointer over a variant pops up a display of alleles and counts.
  • Data Access

    The raw data can be explored interactively with the Table Browser, or the Data Integrator. For automated analysis, the data may be queried from our REST API, and the genome annotations are stored in files that can be downloaded from our download server, subject to the conditions set forth by the gnomAD consortium (see below). Coverage values and constraint scores for the genome are in bigWig files in the coverage/ subdirectory. Variant VCFs can be found in the vcf/ subdirectory.

    The data can also be found directly from the gnomAD downloads page. Please refer to our mailing list archives for questions, or our Data Access FAQ for more information.

    The mutational constraints score ("Gnocchi") was updated in October 2022 from a previous, now deprecated, pre-publication version. The old version can be found in our archive directory on the download server. It can be loaded by copying the URL into our "Custom tracks" input box.

    Credits

    Thanks to the Genome Aggregation Database Consortium for making these data available. The data are released under the ODC Open Database License (ODbL) as described here.

    References

    Karczewski KJ, Francioli LC, Tiao G, Cummings BB, Alfoldi J, Wang Q, Collins RL, Laricchia KM, Ganna A, Birnbaum DP et al. Variation across 141,456 human exomes and genomes reveals the spectrum of loss-of-function intolerance across human protein-coding genes. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/531210.

    Lek M, Karczewski KJ, Minikel EV, Samocha KE, Banks E, Fennell T, O'Donnell-Luria AH, Ware JS, Hill AJ, Cummings BB et al. Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans. Nature. 2016 Aug 17;536(7616):285-91. PMID: 27535533; PMC: PMC5018207

    Chen S, Francioli LC, Goodrich JK, Collins RL, Kanai M, Wang Q, Alföldi J, Watts NA, Vittal C, Gauthier LD et al. A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes. Nature. 2024 Jan;625(7993):92-100. PMID: 38057664
    (We added the data in 2021, then later referenced the 2022 Biorxiv preprint, in which the track was not called "Gnocchi" yet)