f3463c39dcd4e6f8aaff1f4142cf0101b567b435
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  Fri Mar 4 02:01:44 2022 -0800
updating cdsStartStat docs, refs #29030

diff --git src/hg/htdocs/FAQ/FAQformat.html src/hg/htdocs/FAQ/FAQformat.html
index f2c1fe3..4ab91c7 100755
--- src/hg/htdocs/FAQ/FAQformat.html
+++ src/hg/htdocs/FAQ/FAQformat.html
@@ -1110,31 +1110,32 @@
     char[1] strand;     	"+ or - for strand"
     uint txStart;       	"Transcription start position"
     uint txEnd;         	"Transcription end position"
     uint cdsStart;      	"Coding region start"
     uint cdsEnd;        	"Coding region end"
     uint exonCount;     	"Number of exons"
     uint[exonCount] exonStarts; "Exon start positions"
     uint[exonCount] exonEnds;   "Exon end positions"
     int score;            	"Score"
     string name2;       	"Alternate name (e.g. gene_id from GTF)"
     string cdsStartStat; 	"Status of CDS start annotation (none, unknown, incomplete, or complete)"
     string cdsEndStat;   	"Status of CDS end annotation (none, unknown, incomplete, or complete)"
     lstring exonFrames; 	"Exon frame offsets {0,1,2}"
     )
 </code></pre>
-<p>If you want only protein-coding transcripts, then filter for cdsStartStat='cmpl' and cdsEndStat='cmpl'. Non-coding transcripts have either one of these set to 'incmpl'.
+<p>The fields cdsStartStat and cdsEndStat can have the values ('none','unk','incmpl','cmpl'). However, the values are not used for our display and can not be 
+used to subset for coding or non-coding genes. For most purposes, to get more information about a transcript, other tables will need to be used e.g. in the case of hg38, the tables named wgEncodeGencodeAttrsVxx, where xx is the Gencode Version number.
 </p>
 
 <a name=RefFlat></a>
 <p><strong>Gene Predictions and RefSeq Genes with Gene Names</strong></p>
 <p>
 A version of genePred that associates the gene name with the gene prediction information. In 
 alternative-splicing situations, each transcript has a row in this table.</p>
 <pre><code>table refFlat
 "A gene prediction with additional geneName field."
     (
     string  geneName;           "Name of gene as it appears in Genome Browser."
     string  name;               "Name of gene"
     string  chrom;              "Chromosome name"
     char[1] strand;             "+ or - for strand"
     uint    txStart;            "Transcription start position"