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representation of chromosomal positions in the format of cytogenetic band.

Hello, I have some variants in standard vcf format. I want to represent them in [chromosome no][arm name] [band position] based location. is there any way i can convert my positions in this format using some tool. Thanks in advance.

chromosomal position variant representation.

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use bedtools intersect with your vcf and the UCSC cytoband as a BED file: http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/database/cytoBand.txt.gz

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