68c5b3b5dfc4053ff78a6b1d236bd1ac90251cfa
lrnassar
  Mon Jun 1 14:40:45 2026 -0700
varFreqs: description pages for the three combined tracks and "SNV" rename
sweep.

Add varFreqsDisease.html and varFreqsArray.html so the two new combined
tracks have full Description/Display/Methods/Data Access/References. Add a
Caveats section on varFreqsArray about chip-data quality vs sequencing.

Update varFreqsAll.html and the supertrack varFreqs.html to reflect the
three-combined-track family (cross-links between siblings, new "Combined
Tracks" section, new table rows, and updated source/variant counts). Add a
GoNL row to the supertrack table.

Sweep 37 subtrack longLabels and four cross-referencing description pages
(colorsDbSnv.html, mei.html, meiSwegen.html, phasedVars.html) from
"Variant Frequencies:" to "SNV Frequencies:" to match the supertrack
shortLabel. refs #36642

diff --git src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/human/varFreqs.html src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/human/varFreqs.html
index fa9d6dbb231..bb8288f2744 100644
--- src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/human/varFreqs.html
+++ src/hg/makeDb/trackDb/human/varFreqs.html
@@ -1,76 +1,99 @@
 <h2>Description</h2>
 <p>
 This supertrack collects variant allele frequencies from population-scale sequencing and
 genotyping projects worldwide, from a total of ~1.7 million genomes/exomes/arrays.
-The data was not reprocessed in a harmonized way; the variant VCFs were collected from the projects as-is.
-The goal is a single place to compare how common
-a variant is across different populations, ancestries, and cohorts, for
-projects that cannot be recomputed by gnomAD soon. The main
-<a href="hgTrackUi?g=varFreqsAll">combined track</a> merges all databases into one summary track,
-with filters, summed population frequencies and recalculated protein-effect annotations.
-There is also one subtrack per project with the original VCF data and all the annotations that the project provides.
-The different projects use different pipelines and sequencing technologies. Click any of the projects
-above or below for a summary of their sample selection, sequencing assay and software pipeline.
-Many projects do not allow us to distribute the data, but we document how to request it
-and provide all converters.</p>
+The data was not reprocessed in a harmonized way; the variant VCFs were collected from the
+projects as-is. The goal is a single place to compare how common a variant is across
+different populations, ancestries, and cohorts, for projects that cannot be recomputed by
+gnomAD soon. Three combined tracks aggregate the source data along different lines, and
+there is also one subtrack per project with the original VCF data and all the annotations
+that the project provides. The different projects use different pipelines and sequencing
+technologies. Click any of the projects above or below for a summary of their sample
+selection, sequencing assay and software pipeline. Many projects do not allow us to
+distribute the data, but we document how to request it and provide all converters.
+</p>
 
 <p>
 Data from projects that provide haplotype-phased genotypes can also be found
 elsewhere: 1000 Genomes is also a separate track, and the phased genotypes HGDP, SGDP,
 HGDP+1000 Genomes and Mexico Biobank can also be found in the &quot;Phased Variants&quot; track.
 Their VCF versions below show only the isolate frequency per variant.
 </p>
 
 <p>Please contact us (<A HREF="mailto:&#103;en&#111;&#109;&#101;&#64;&#115;&#111;&#101;.&#117;&#99;s&#99;.&#101;&#100;u">&#103;en&#111;&#109;&#101;&#64;&#115;&#111;&#101;.&#117;&#99;s&#99;.&#101;&#100;u</A><!-- above address is genome at soe.ucsc.edu -->) if you know of a project that we should add. So far,
 Regeneron&apos;s Million Exomes and Mexico City Studies (request rejected) and Taiwan Biobank (pending).
 </p>
 
-<h2>Combined Track (All Databases)</h2>
+<h2>Combined Tracks</h2>
 <p>
-The &quot;All Databases Combined&quot; track merges variants from all individual databases into a single
-bigBed file with consequence annotations, totaling 1.17 billion variants from ~1.7 million individuals.
-The track supports filtering by variant type
-(SNV, insertion, deletion, MNV), predicted consequence (missense, synonymous, stop gained,
-frameshift, splice, intron, intergenic), source database, allele frequency (overall maximum
-and per-database), and allele count (total or per-database). The track is useful in dense mode
-to get a quick overview of variant density across all projects, or with filters to find
-variants present in specific databases or within certain frequency ranges. With the &quot;clone track&quot;
-feature you can clone this track and keep multiple versions, each with different filters activated.
-The &quot;Density mode&quot; checkbox on the track configuration page shows a plot of the
-density of variants passing a filter, one per track clone.
+Three combined tracks merge variants from the individual subtracks into single bigBed files
+with predicted protein consequences and cross-database filtering. All three use the same
+filter conventions (variant type, consequence, source database, allele frequency, allele
+count, and per-database AF/AC).
 </p>
+<ul>
+  <li><a href="hgTrackUi?g=varFreqsAll"><b>All Databases Combined</b></a> &mdash; 1.34
+      billion variants from 28 sequencing-based cohorts (WGS, WES, long-read). The default
+      summary view of the supertrack. Excludes the genotyping-array cohorts.</li>
+  <li><a href="hgTrackUi?g=varFreqsDisease"><b>Disease-related Databases Combined</b></a>
+      &mdash; 932 million variants from six disease-focused cohorts (SPARK, SFARI WGS,
+      TOPMed, SCHEMA, GREGoR, GA4K), with phenotype-stratified AC/AF where the source
+      provides it.</li>
+  <li><a href="hgTrackUi?g=varFreqsArray"><b>Genotyping Array Databases Combined</b></a>
+      &mdash; 14.7 million variants from three array cohorts (TPMI Taiwan, Mexico Biobank,
+      UK Biobank imputed). Kept separate because chip data has different per-variant
+      confidence than sequencing.</li>
+</ul>
 
 <h3>Available Datasets</h3>
 
 <table class="stdTbl">
 <tr>
   <th>Database</th>
   <th>Region</th>
   <th>N</th>
   <th>Data Type</th>
   <th>Cohort</th>
   <th>Sub-populations</th>
   <th>Downloadable from UCSC</th>
 </tr>
 <tr>
-  <td><a href="hgTrackUi?g=varFreqsAll">All Databases combined</a></td>
-  <td>All below</td>
-  <td>1.7mil</td>
-  <td>WGS/WES/imputed</td>
-  <td></td>
-  <td></td>
+  <td><a href="hgTrackUi?g=varFreqsAll">All Databases Combined</a></td>
+  <td>Sequencing-based, all below</td>
+  <td>~1.7mil</td>
+  <td>WGS/WES/long-read</td>
+  <td>1.34B variants</td>
+  <td>Phenotype splits for SPARK, SFARI WGS, GREGoR</td>
+  <td>No</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+  <td><a href="hgTrackUi?g=varFreqsDisease">Disease-related Databases Combined</a></td>
+  <td>SPARK, SFARI WGS, TOPMed, SCHEMA, GREGoR, GA4K</td>
+  <td>~300k</td>
+  <td>WGS/WES/long-read</td>
+  <td>932M variants</td>
+  <td>SPARK ASD/Non-ASD, SFARI WGS ASD/Non-ASD, SCHEMA case/control, GREGoR aff/unaff/unknown</td>
+  <td>No</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+  <td><a href="hgTrackUi?g=varFreqsArray">Genotyping Array Databases Combined</a></td>
+  <td>TPMI, MexBB, UKBB</td>
+  <td>~530k</td>
+  <td>Array / imputed</td>
+  <td>14.7M variants</td>
+  <td>&mdash;</td>
   <td>No</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td><a href="hgTrackUi?g=allofus">AllOfUs v7</a></td>
   <td>USA</td>
   <td>245k</td>
   <td>WGS</td>
   <td>General population, diverse</td>
   <td>African, Indigenous American, East Asian, European, Oceanian, South Asian
       (<b>local ancestry</b>; see Notes below)</td>
   <td>Yes</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td><a href="hgTrackUi?g=topmed">TOPMED Freeze 10</a></td>
   <td>USA</td>
@@ -122,30 +145,39 @@
   <td>361k</td>
   <td>Imputed array (HRC+UK10K+1KGp3 ref panel)</td>
   <td>White British subset of UK Biobank, Neale Lab Round 2 GWAS</td>
   <td>&mdash;</td>
   <td>Yes</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td><a href="hgTrackUi?g=swefreq">SweGen</a></td>
   <td>Sweden</td>
   <td>1k</td>
   <td>WGS</td>
   <td>Cross-section of Swedish population</td>
   <td>&mdash;</td>
   <td>No</td>
 </tr>
+<tr>
+  <td><a href="hgTrackUi?g=gonl">GoNL</a></td>
+  <td>Netherlands</td>
+  <td>498</td>
+  <td>WGS (~13x)</td>
+  <td>250 unrelated Dutch trios (parents only)</td>
+  <td>&mdash;</td>
+  <td>Yes</td>
+</tr>
 <tr>
   <td><a href="hgTrackUi?g=schema">SCHEMA</a></td>
   <td>Multi-national</td>
   <td>121k</td>
   <td>WES</td>
   <td>Schizophrenia: 24k cases, 97k controls</td>
   <td>&mdash;</td>
   <td>Yes</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td><a href="hgTrackUi?g=tommo60kjpn">Japan ToMMO 61k</a></td>
   <td>Japan</td>
   <td>61k</td>
   <td>WGS</td>
   <td>General population</td>