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Releasing and announcing the EVA Release 8 tracks, refs #36512
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+Dec. 19, 2025 EVA SNP release 8 for 41 assemblies
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+We are pleased to announce the release of the EVA SNP Release 8 tracks for 41 assemblies.
+These tracks contain mappings of single nucleotide variants and small insertions and deletions
+(indels) — collectively Simple Nucleotide Variants (SNVs) — from the European Variation
+Archive (EVA) Release 8. The full list of
+assemblies that contain the EVA SNP release 8 track is below:
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+These variants are classified by EVA into one of the following sequence ontology terms:
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+ - substitution —
+ A single nucleotide in the reference is replaced by another, alternate allele.
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- deletion —
+ One or more nucleotides are deleted. The representation in the database is to
+ display one additional nucleotide in both the Reference field (Ref) and the
+ Alternate Allele field (Alt). E.g., a variant that is a deletion of an A
+ may be represented as Ref = GA and Alt = G.
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- insertion —
+ One or more nucleotides are inserted. The representation in the database is to
+ display one additional nucleotide in both the Reference field (Ref) and the
+ Alternate Allele field (Alt). E.g., a variant that is an insertion of a T may
+ be represented as Ref = G and Alt = GT.
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- delins —
+ Similar to a tandem repeat, in that the runs of Ref and Alt Alleles are of
+ different length, except that there is more than one type of nucleotide,
+ e.g., Ref = CCAAAAACAAAAACA, Alt = ACAAAAAC.
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- multipleNucleotideVariant —
+ More than one nucleotide is substituted by an equal number of different
+ nucleotides, e.g., Ref = AA, Alt = GC.
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- sequence alteration —
+ A parent term meant to signify a deviation from another sequence. Can be
+ assigned to variants that have not been characterized yet.
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+The variants have also been annotated with our Variant
+Annotation Integrator tool with functional classes such as synonymous variant,
+missense variant, stop gained, etc. For additional details on the track colors,
+as well as the filters and metadata on each variant, see the
+track description page.
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+We would like to thank the European Variation
+Archive for making these data publicly available. We would also like to thank Gerardo Perez, Luis Nassar,
+and Angie Hinrichs for the creation and release of these tracks.
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