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Genotype Extraction Format from VCF file

When you extract genotype data for certain samples in a VCF file, is the resultant file in GT.FORMAT still technically a VCF file in itself? or if you wanted these extracted genotypes in their own vcf, do you somehow have to convert this to .vcf?

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updated by WouterDeCoster WouterDeCoster • written by MK2000 • MK2000

it's not clear. Give use an example of "resultant file" and"extracted genotypes "

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written by Pierre Lindenbaum Pierre Lindenbaum

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While your question is unclear, if you select lines from your vcf and keep the header intact then yes, that's still a vcf. If you start to do more tampering than you are likely breaking the specfications.

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written by WouterDeCoster WouterDeCoster

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