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1000 Genomes and ESP Populations in Exome Aggregation Consortium Data

Is there any documented information on how many of the ESP/1000 genomes samples were included in the ExAC data release? I was under the impression that all samples were included but when I'm trying to annotate a few SNPs I can see some discordance in the allele frequencies.

For example I see this Exonic SNP with 0.119 allele frequency in 1000 genomes Phase 3 dataset but this cannot be found in ExAC data

5    131705587    rs13180043    C    T    100    PASS    AF=0.11901

Another example, present in both ESP & 1000 genomes but not in ExAC

1    156108976    rs7339    G    C    .    PASS    DBSNP=dbSNP_52;EA_AC=246,2936;AA_AC=561,823;TAC=807,3759;

1    156108976    rs7339    G    C    100    PASS    AF=0.185304;

I'd like to know preferably what kind of overlap exists between these 3 population sets and if possible what kind of capture regions were used for ExAC data.

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Is there any source to your assumption that all 1000g/ESP samples were included in ExAC? The About page speaks of an analysis from scratch, which would imply that the results are independent of 1000g or ESP.

Check under contributing projects: http://exac.broadinstitute.org/about

Even if they did variant calling from the scratch if you include a sample set, you expect to see a SNP with high enough allele frequency in the population.

That makes sense. I guess you could always email them for specific details or check if they have a preprint that you could read.

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Neither of the variants are in the called regions.

5   131701132   131701341   -   hsa-mir-3936
5   131705614   131706109   +   SLC22A5|ice_target_65179
1   156108820   156108949   +   LMNA|ice_target_14401
1   156109511   156109680   +   LMNA|ice_target_14402

See here for the full bed file of called regions: ftp://ftp.broadinstitute.org/pub/ExAC_release/release0.1/exome_calling_regions.v1.interval_list

Thank you! This is what I was looking for. They don't have this for the latest release (0.2) but I guess its safe to assume it would be the same.

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