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How can I download the whole ClinVar database

Imagine a pipeline that interprets VCF file findings for a clinician.

How can a user download (for offline use) the complete ClinVar database.

(specifically, what is needed is a column that somehow indicates clinical level of evidence for each variant - e.g., level 1 (important, validated clinical impact), level 3 (early research only)

next-gen

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ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/clinvar/

NCBI has this information available for download

I typically use a slightly different file format, but ANNOVAR can annotate variants for ClinVar annotations.

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