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  Mon Feb 9 15:46:05 2026 -0800
Announcing the Mexico Biobank tracks and the Phased Variants container, refs #36259

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+<h2>Feb. 09, 2026 &nbsp;&nbsp; Phased variants track for human (hg38 and hg19)</h2>
+<p>
+We are pleased to announce the release of the Phased Variants container track for
+<a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&position=default&g=phasedVars">hg38/GRCh38</a>
+and <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg19&position=default&g=phasedVars">hg19/GRCh19</a>.
+This new track brings together
+phased individual-level genotype data from four projects: Human Diversity Genome Project,
+Simons Genome Diversity Project, gnomad's HGDP+1000 Genomes callset, and the Mexico Biobank.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The Phased Variants track includes the following
+subtracks:
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+  <li>
+    <a href="https://www.mxbiobank.org/" target="_blank"<b>Mexico Biobank (MXB) 6k Array</b></a> 
+    &ndash;
+    Phased alleles from array genotyping of 6,011 individuals sampled across all 32 states of
+    Mexico during the 2000 National Health Survey (ENSA 2000). Frequencies can be plotted onto a
+    map on <a href="https://morenolab.shinyapps.io/mexvar/" target="_blank">MexVar</a>.
+  </li>
+  <li>
+    <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7115999/" target="_blank"><b>Human Genome
+    Diversity Project (HGDP) 1k WGS</b></a> &ndash;
+    929 high-coverage genome sequences from 54 diverse human populations, 26 of which are physically
+    phased using linked-read sequencing (hg38 only).
+  </li>
+  <li>
+    <a href="https://www.simonsfoundation.org/simons-genome-diversity-project/"
+    target="_blank"><b>Simons Genome Diversity Project (SGDP) 0.3k WGS</b></a> &ndash;
+    279 whole genomes from 142 diverse and often indigenous populations worldwide, emphasizing
+    anthropological, linguistic, and cultural diversity.
+  </li>
+  <li>
+    <a href="https://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/news/2021-10-gnomad-v3-1-2-minor-release/"
+    target="_blank"><b>gnomAD HGDP+1000 Genomes 4k WGS</b></a> &ndash;
+    A reprocessed and harmonized callset of 4,094 whole genomes from 80 populations, combining the
+    HGDP and 1000 Genomes datasets (hg38 only).
+  </li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+We would like to thank the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav) of Mexico, the
+Simons Foundation, David Reich and Swapan Mallick, and the Genome Aggregation Database Consortium
+(gnomAD) for making these data available. We would also like to thank Maximilian Haeussler and
+Jairo Navarro Gonzalez for the creation and release of these tracks.
+</p>
+
+
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 <h2>Feb. 05, 2026 &nbsp;&nbsp; New recount3 track for hg38 and mm10</h2>
 <p>
 We are happy to announce the release of the <a href="http://rna.recount.bio"
 	target="_blank">recount3</a> track for
 <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=hg38&position=default&g=recount3" target="_blank">hg38</a> and
 <a href="/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?db=mm10&position=default&g=recount3" target="_blank">mm10</a>. Recount3
 is a comprehensive resource for re-analyzing RNA-seq data. It provides uniformly processed
 RNA-seq data and associated metadata from a wide range of studies, enabling researchers to access
 and analyze gene expression data in a consistent manner. Recount3 aggregates data from multiple
 sources, including the
 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/docs/" target="_blank">Sequence Read Archive (SRA)</a>
 and the <a href="https://commonfund.nih.gov/GTEx"
 	target="_blank">Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project</a>, and reprocesses it using a
 standardized pipeline. This allows for cross-study comparisons and meta-analyses, facilitating