This is a test version of Biostars. For the public version, visit https://www.biostars.org.
ncbi shows another chromosome of a SNP

I have lots of SNPs from GWAS with their positions and chromosomes. According to my data and this page a SNP rs 3000483 is located on chromosome 13. According to NCBI it is on chromosome Y. How can it happen?

snp

1 answer

When I take the SNP's flanking sequence from NCBI and align it to hg19 with BLAT I get:

QUERY       SCORE START  END QSIZE IDENTITY CHRO STRAND  START    END
------------------------------------------------------------------------
rs3000483    599     1   600   600 100.0%    13   +   40318925  40319525

Notably, there are no high-scoring positions on chrY for this sequence. The best chrY hit is 3316143, but that is ~450Kb away from the site reported by NCBI at 3763199.

However, UCSC says that the position is chrY 3631240.

I'm not sure where to place this SNP.

Log in to answer this question.