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lrnassar
  Sun Jun 21 11:17:10 2026 -0700
Clarify varFreqs description page wording per code review feedback. refs #37733

Reword the default_an sentence in the Pooled allele frequency sections of
varFreqsAffected.html and varFreqsBackground.html to explain that cohorts
publishing only AF are pooled via an assigned default_an, with per-arm AC
derived as round(AF * default_an). Change "tokens" to "terms" in the
Consequence filter section of varFreqs.html.

diff --git src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/human/varFreqs.html src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/human/varFreqs.html
index 44840eb1a7c..fb6fc359c6c 100644
--- src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/human/varFreqs.html
+++ src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/human/varFreqs.html
@@ -52,31 +52,31 @@
 </ul>
 
 <p>
 On the Disease and Population reference tracks, <b>Affected AF</b> and <b>Background AF</b>
 are pooled across contributing cohort arms (sum of allele counts divided by sum of allele
 numbers), not the maximum across arms, so the displayed frequency matches the carrier-count
 scale and a small cohort with a high local frequency does not dominate the value. See the
 &quot;Pooled allele frequency&quot; section on each combined track's description page for
 which cohorts contribute to the pool numerator and denominator.
 </p>
 
 <h3>Consequence filter &mdash; the &quot;Other&quot; bucket</h3>
 <p>
 All three combined tracks share the same Consequence filter (Missense, Synonymous, Stop
 Gained, Frameshift, Splice Donor, Splice Acceptor, Intron, 3' UTR, 5' UTR, Non-coding,
-Intergenic, Other). The filter uses OR logic across the comma-separated consequence tokens
+Intergenic, Other). The filter uses OR logic across the comma-separated consequence terms
 on each variant: a variant tagged <code>stop_gained,frameshift</code> is selected by either
 the &quot;Stop Gained&quot; or the &quot;Frameshift&quot; filter. The &quot;Other&quot;
 bucket catches the less common
 <a href="http://www.sequenceontology.org/" target="_blank">Sequence Ontology</a> consequence
  that don't fit the named buckets above. Examples
 include <code>splice_region</code> (variant near a splice site but outside the canonical
 donor/acceptor), <code>start_lost</code> / <code>stop_lost</code> (variant disrupts the
 start codon or replaces the stop codon with a coding amino acid),
 <code>stop_retained</code> (variant changes the stop codon but keeps it a stop),
 <code>inframe_insertion</code> / <code>inframe_deletion</code> (in-frame indel that adds or
 removes whole codons), and <code>coding_sequence</code> (CDS variant where the precise
 impact is undetermined). If you include &quot;Other&quot; in the filter selection, no
 records will be hidden by the consequence filter.
 </p>