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difference between 2 snp's data annotations

Hi,

I have annotation from the http://www.scandb.org/ , The SCAN website , and from data I got from my advisor

the Scan annotation as follows

snp chr pos
rs987435    7   78437519
rs345783    15  31183071
rs6088791   20  33371323
rs11180435  12  73950313
rs2342723   16  5688792

My data annotation is

snp chr pos
rs987435 chr7 78599583
rs345783 chr15 33395779
rs6088791 chr20 33907909
rs11180435 chr12 75664046
rs2342723 chr16 5748791

the position is different , why? which one shall I trust?

Thank you,

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updated by pfs pfs • written by mms140130 mms140130

2 answers

Trust your data annotation. When you look up one SNP in dnSNP you will see that your annotation matches GRCh37 while the Scan annotation does not match GRCh38. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/snp_ref.cgi?rs=987435

Judging by data sources of information documented in the about SCAN link I am guessing that SNPs are mapped to an ever older version. http://www.scandb.org/newinterface/help.html

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written by pfs pfs

Probably different genome assemblies. Scandb uses dbSNP129 from 2008, so the assembly is probably hg18. Your coordinates are hg19. You can use liftOver to check if that is true.

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