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     SNP|MNP<br>
 
     SNP|MNP<br>
 
     REF  AT     
 
     REF  AT     
     ALT  GT           #SNP, 1 ts
+
     ALT  GT         #SNP, 1 ts
     ALT  AC           #SNP, 1 ts
+
     ALT  AC         #SNP, 1 ts
 
     #since all the alleles are of the sample length, classified as MNP too.
 
     #since all the alleles are of the sample length, classified as MNP too.
  
 
     SNP|MNP|CLUMPED<br>
 
     SNP|MNP|CLUMPED<br>
 
     REF  ATTTG     
 
     REF  ATTTG     
     ALT  GTTTC       #CLUMPED, 1 ts, 1 tv
+
     ALT  GTTTC       #CLUMPED, 1 ts, 1 tv
     ALT  ATTTC       #SNP, 1 tv
+
     ALT  ATTTC       #SNP, 1 tv
 
     #since all the alleles are of the sample length, classified as MNP too.
 
     #since all the alleles are of the sample length, classified as MNP too.
  
 
     SNP|MNP|INDEL<br>
 
     SNP|MNP|INDEL<br>
 
     REF  GT     
 
     REF  GT     
     ALT  CT           #SNP, 1 tv
+
     ALT  CT         #SNP, 1 tv
     ALT  AG           #MNP, 2 tv
+
     ALT  AG         #MNP, 2 tv
     ALT  GTT         #INDEL, 1 ins
+
     ALT  GTT         #INDEL, 1 ins
  
 
     SNP|MNP|INDEL|CLUMPED<br>
 
     SNP|MNP|INDEL|CLUMPED<br>
 
     REF  GTTT     
 
     REF  GTTT     
     ALT  CG           #MNP|INDEL, 2 tv, 1 del
+
     ALT  CG         #MNP|INDEL, 2 tv, 1 del
     ALT  AG           #MNP|INDEL, 1 ts, 1 tv
+
     ALT  AG         #MNP|INDEL, 1 ts, 1 tv
     ALT  GTGTG       #SNP|INDEL|CLUMPED, 1 tv
+
     ALT  GTGTG       #SNP|INDEL|CLUMPED, 1 tv
  
 
== Weird Examples ==
 
== Weird Examples ==

Revision as of 18:14, 5 September 2014

Introduction

The Variant Call Format (VCF) is a flexible file format specification that allows us to represent many different variant types ranging from SNPs, indels to copy number variations. However, variant representation in VCF is non-unique for variants that have explicitly expressed reference and alternate sequences.

On this wiki page, we describe a a variant classification system for VCF variants.

Definitions

The definition of a variant is based on the definition of each allele with respect to the reference sequence. We consider 5 major types loosely defined as follows.

1. SNP
The reference and alternate sequences are of length 1 and the base nucleotide is different from one another.
2. MNP
a.The reference and alternate sequences are of the same length and have to be greater than 1 and all nucleotides in the sequences differ from one another.
OR
b. all reference and alternate sequences have the same length.
3. INDEL
a. The reference and alternate sequence are not the same length.
AND
b. The removal of a subsequence of the longer sequence would reduce the longer sequence to the smaller sequence.
4. CLUMPED
a. A clumping of nearby SNPs, MNPs or Indels.
5. SV
The alternate sequence is represented by a angled bracket tag.

Examples

We present the following examples to explain the concepts explained earlier.

Legend for examples

   <variant classification>
REF <reference sequence> ALT <alternative sequence 1> #<allele classification>, <contribution to transition, transversion, insertion or deletion count> ALT <alternative sequence 2> #<allele classification>, <contribution to transition, transversion, insertion or deletion count>

Simple Biallelic Examples

   SNP
REF A ALT G #SNP, 1 ts
   MNP
REF AT ALT GC #MPN, 2 ts
   INDEL
REF AT ALT A #INDEL, 1 del
   INDEL
REF AT ALT T #INDEL, 1 del
   SV
REF A ALT <DEL> #SV

Complex Biallelic Examples

   SNP|INDEL
REF AT ALT G #SNP, INDEL, 1 ts
   MNP|INDEL
REF ATT ALT GG #MNP, INDEL, 1 ts, 1 tv, 1 del
   MNP|CLUMPED
REF ATTTT ALT GTTTC #MNP, CLUMEPD, 2 ts #since all the alleles are of the sample length, classified as MNP too.
   INDEL|CLUMPED
REF ATTTTTTTT ALT GTTTC #INDEL, CLUMPED, 2 ts, 1 del

Simple Multiallelic Examples

   SNP
REF A ALT G #SNP, 1 ts ALT C #SNP, 1 tv
   MNP
REF AG ALT GC #MNP, 1 ts, 1 tv ALT CT #MNP, 2 tv
   INDEL
REF ATTT ALT ATT #INDEL, 1 del ALT ATTTT #INDEL, 1 ins

Complex Multiallelic Examples

   SNP|MNP
REF AT ALT GT #SNP, 1 ts ALT AC #SNP, 1 ts #since all the alleles are of the sample length, classified as MNP too.
   SNP|MNP|CLUMPED
REF ATTTG ALT GTTTC #CLUMPED, 1 ts, 1 tv ALT ATTTC #SNP, 1 tv #since all the alleles are of the sample length, classified as MNP too.
   SNP|MNP|INDEL
REF GT ALT CT #SNP, 1 tv ALT AG #MNP, 2 tv ALT GTT #INDEL, 1 ins
   SNP|MNP|INDEL|CLUMPED
REF GTTT ALT CG #MNP|INDEL, 2 tv, 1 del ALT AG #MNP|INDEL, 1 ts, 1 tv ALT GTGTG #SNP|INDEL|CLUMPED, 1 tv

Weird Examples

Structured Variants Examples

          no. of structural variants         :      41217         
              2 alleles                      :           38079
                  deletion                   :                13135           <DEL>
                  insertion                  :                16451           <INS>
                     mobile element          :                    16253       <INS:ME>
                        ALU                  :                        12513   <INS:ME:ALU>
                        LINE1                :                         2911   <INS:ME:LINE1>
                        SVA                  :                          829   <INS:ME:SVA>
                     numt                    :                      198       <INS:MT>
                  duplication                :                  664           <DUP>
                  inversion                  :                  100           <INV>
                  copy number variation      :                 7729           <CN4>
              >=3 alleles                    :            3138
                  copy number variation      :                 3138           <CN4>,<CN8>

Output

This is the annotated output of peek in the vt suite.

stats:no. of samples                     :          0 #number of genotype fields in VCF file, this is a site list so it is 0
      no. of chromosomes                 :         25 #no. of chromosomes observed in this file.
========== Micro variants ==========
no. of SNP : 54247827 #total number of SNPs 2 alleles : 53487808 (1.99) [35616038/17871770] #ts/tv ratio and the respective counts 3 alleles : 389190 (0.60) [291224/487156] 4 alleles : 370828 (0.50) [370828/741656] >=5 alleles : 1 (0.33) [1/3]
no. of MNP : 122125 2 alleles : 121849 (1.56) [152383/97816] 3 alleles : 273 (0.89) [537/601] 4 alleles : 3 (1.00) [9/9]
no. of Indel : 6600770 2 alleles : 6285861 (0.88) [2937096/3348765] #ins/del ratio and the respective counts 3 alleles : 280892 (8.72) [503977/57807] 4 alleles : 28245 (131.19) [84094/641] >=5 alleles : 5772 (3847.00) [23082/6]
no. of SNP/MNP : 1161 3 alleles : 1143 (1.57) [1565/994] 4 alleles : 15 (1.36) [34/25] >=5 alleles : 3 (0.67) [8/12]
no. of SNP/Indel : 115153 2 alleles : 42717 (0.65) [16778/25939] (0.57) [15441/27276] #ts/tv and ins/del ratios 3 alleles : 66401 (0.72) [29681/41397] (0.33) [31458/96168] 4 alleles : 4631 (0.55) [2420/4386] (0.25) [2602/10306] >=5 alleles : 1404 (0.62) [1197/1926] (0.10) [513/4989]
no. of MNP/Indel : 15619 2 alleles : 12820 (0.51) [12099/23648] (0.77) [5594/7226] 3 alleles : 2455 (0.40) [1796/4469] (0.45) [1144/2546] 4 alleles : 292 (0.24) [215/891] (1.42) [415/292] >=5 alleles : 52 (0.43) [96/225] (2.47) [126/51]
no. of SNP/MNP/Indel : 273 3 alleles : 167 (0.63) [201/321] (0.38) [70/184] 4 alleles : 85 (0.35) [71/203] (0.28) [31/111] >=5 alleles : 21 (0.35) [24/68] (0.68) [25/37]
no. of MNP/Clumped : 61175 2 alleles : 60617 (1.68) [84410/50220] 3 alleles : 549 (1.23) [1777/1449] 4 alleles : 8 (1.43) [53/37] >=5 alleles : 1 (1.00) [5/5]
no. of SNP/MNP/Clumped : 290 3 alleles : 282 (1.35) [665/494] 4 alleles : 8 (0.57) [13/23]
no. of Indel/Clumped : 27638 2 alleles : 25971 (0.65) [31435/48526] (0.79) [11444/14527] 3 alleles : 1585 (0.74) [3568/4793] (0.87) [1383/1582] 4 alleles : 70 (0.55) [96/175] (1.61) [124/77] >=5 alleles : 12 (0.59) [37/63] (4.71) [33/7]
no. of SNP/Indel/Clumped : 456 3 alleles : 257 (0.84) [332/394] (0.33) [111/340] 4 alleles : 174 (0.38) [105/279] (0.58) [186/321] >=5 alleles : 25 (0.19) [12/63] (0.94) [44/47]
no. of MNP/Indel/Clumped : 153 3 alleles : 138 (0.50) [233/466] (0.84) [102/122] 4 alleles : 12 (0.35) [14/40] (1.42) [17/12] >=5 alleles : 3 (0.64) [7/11] (0.67) [4/6]
no. of SNP/MNP/Indel/Clumped : 6 4 alleles : 1 (3.00) [3/1] (0.00) [0/3] >=5 alleles : 5 (0.62) [8/13] (2.00) [12/6]
no. of Reference : 0
====== Other useful categories =====
no. of Block Substitutions : 184751 #equivalent to categories with allele lengths that are the same. 2 alleles : 182466 (1.60) [236793/148036] 3 alleles : 2247 (1.28) [4544/3538] 4 alleles : 34 (1.16) [109/94] >=5 alleles : 4 (0.76) [13/17]
no. of Complex Substitutions : 159298 #equivalent to categories not including simple SNPs, Block Substitutions and Simple Indels 2 alleles : 81508 (0.61) [60312/98113] (0.66) [32479/49029] 3 alleles : 71003 (0.69) [35811/51840] (0.34) [34268/100942] 4 alleles : 5265 (0.49) [2924/5975] (0.30) [3375/11122] >=5 alleles : 1522 (0.58) [1381/2369] (0.15) [757/5143]
======= Structural variants ========
no. of structural variants : 41217 2 alleles : 38079 deletion : 13135 insertion : 16451 mobile element : 16253 ALU : 12513 LINE1 : 2911 SVA : 829 numt : 198 duplication : 664 inversion : 100 copy number variation : 7729 >=3 alleles : 3138 copy number variation : 3138
========= General summary ==========
no. of observed variants : 79449759 no. of unclassified variants : 0

Implementation

This is implemented in vt.

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