Hello Dmitry,

The snp129 table has average heterozygosity (avHet) and standard error 
(avHetSE) columns that contain values calculated by dbSNP as described here:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP/Hetfreq.html

Also see this previously-answered mailing list question regarding the 
abundance of zeros in these columns:
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/pipermail/genome/2008-April/016014.html

A more detailed source (although it is a smaller set) for allele 
frequency data is the HapMap SNPs track.  In particular, I think the 
hapmapAllelesSummary table contains the information you are looking for. 
  To see a description of the fields in the table, select the following 
in the Table Browser (http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTables):

clade: mammal
genome: human
assembly: Mar. 2006
group: variation and repeats
track: HapMap SNPs
table: select any of the tables in the drop-down menu

Now hit "describe table schema".  Scroll down to the "Connected Tables 
and Joining Fields" section, and click on the hapmapAllelesSummary link.

I hope this is helpful.

--
Brooke Rhead
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group


On 01/16/09 16:44, Dmitry Pushkarev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I'm currently wringing short reads aligned that I want to assign error
> probabilities based on prior dbSNP information. In simple probabilistic
> model I use I need to have priors for all positions in the genome, that is
> probability that randomly chosen individual will have base N at position X.
> Is there an obvious way to do so  using dbSNP database from your web-site?
> (i.e. to get some approximation for allele frequencies for given RS#
> cluster)
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>  
> 
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> Dmitry Pushkarev
> 
> +1-650-644-8988
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