Hi Irwin, Thank you for the compliments on the Genome Browser.
There is a "GWAS Catalog" track in the Phenotype group, which comes from NHGRI (http://www.genome.gov/gwastudies/). There is not an entry for rs17270803, however. Since it is manually curated, it is relatively sparse (hg19 has ~6000 reports for ~4500 SNPs, from >750 publications), but they are steadily working on it, so their database has been growing over time, and we update our track every couple months or so. The GWAS Catalog page lists some basic criteria for selecting publications to include in the catalog, and has links to more details about their methods. It doesn't list a contact for requesting particular publications to be reviewed, but you could try contacting the GWAS Catalog authors directly. Thank you for letting us know what is useful to you. If you have further questions, please feel free to contact us again at [email protected]. -- Brooke Rhead UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group On 07/17/11 06:08, Irwin McLean wrote: > Dear UCSC team > > Firstly - you guys are doing a great job. Your site is amazingly useful to me and my research group. > > Secondly, you may be working on this already but if not, here's a suggestion. It would be useful to have a track where the most associated SNPs coming from GWAS projects on different common diseases are flagged. > > E.g. I was just looking at a SNP today, rs17270803, that we have interesting GWAS data in relation to skin disease. This is near a gene encoding a kinase that has been implicated in cancer and so I was wondering if that or nearby SNPs have come up in any cancer GWAS or GWAS for other diseases. > > This would be very useful data to have as a UCSC genome browser > track. > > Anyway, keep up the great work and best wishes > > Irwin > > > > > > Irwin McLean FRSE FMedSci > > Professor of Human Genetics > Dermatology and Genetic Medicine > Division of Molecular Medicine > University of Dundee > > Colleges of Life Sciences and Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing > Medical Sciences Institute > Dundee DD1 5EH > Scotland > UK > > Phone: +44-1382-381046 (secretary) > Fax: +44-1382-388535 > PA: Diane Purves, [email protected] > Web: http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/groups/irwin_mclean/ > > > ************************************************************ > Please consider the environment. Do you really need to print this email? > > > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
