TogoVar datasets (GRCh37)

Variant frequencies for which you can apply for use of individual-level data∗1 to the NBDC human databases∗2

Click the links at the Included controlled-access datasets to apply for use of individual-level data

Variant dataset nameAnalysis methodTarget populationHealthy subjectsAffected subjectsSample sizeNumber of variants
(# of sites)
Included controlled-access datasets
GEM Japan Whole Genome Aggregation (GEM-J WGA) PanelWGSJapanese7,60995,863,463
(90,280,248)
6 datasets
JGA-SNPSNP-ChipJapanese183,8841,249,7243 datasets
JGA-WESWESJapanese1254,679,025
7 datasets

∗1:fastq/bam/cel files and/or lists of genotype data etc.
∗2:Japanese Genotype-phenotype Archive (JGA) / AMED Genome group sharing Database (AGD)

Other variant frequency datasets

Variant dataset nameAnalysis methodTarget populationHealthy subjectsAffected subjectsSample sizeNumber of alleles
(# of sites)
AuthorVersion/Last updated
Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) exomesWESMixed125,74817,209,972Broad Institutev2.1.1
Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) genomesWGSMixed15,708261,942,336Broad Institutev2.1.1
Human Genetic Variation Database (HGVD)WESJapanese1,208554,400Kyoto UniversityVersion 2.30
(2017/08/02)
ToMMo 8.3KJPN Allele Frequency Panel(8.3KJPN)WGSJapanese8,38095,085,851
(79,359,228)
Tohoku Medical Megabank Organizationv20200831

Note: 8.3KJPN consists of SNVs (Autosome, chrX(PAR1+PAR2+XTR) and chrMT) and INDELs (Autosome and chrX(PAR1+PAR2+XTR)).

Non-variant frequency datasets

Dataset nameVersion/Last updateDescriptionAuthor
ClinVar2024/10/03Clinical significance of variantsNCBI
ColilObtained by APIInformation on citation relationships in life sciences literatureDBCLS
GRCh37.p132013/06/28Human genome reference sequenceGRC
GWAS Catalog2024/10/15Catalog of human genome-wide association studiesNHGRI-EBI
HGNC symbol report2024/08/27Approved human gene nomenclature and associated gene informationHGNC
LitVarObtained by APIInformation on papers in which the names of variants appearNCBI
MedGen2024/10/15Information related to human medical genetics, such as attributes of conditions with a genetic contributionNCBI
MGeND2024/03/08Clinical significance of variants collected from the Japanese populationNCGM
PubMed2024/10/14Information on papersNCBI
PubTator Central2024/01/04Information on papers in which the names of variants appearNCBI

Note: TogoVar obtained ClinVar variants from the VCF filethat contains only variants for which GRCh37 positions were determined.

Tools for data processing

NameVer.DescriptionAuthor
bcftools1.20Split multiallelic sites into biallelic variants, exclude reference mismatches, and normalize themGenome Research Ltd.
BioReTIdentify germline short variants (SNPs and Indels) in WES from JGA to produce a joint callset in VCF formatAmelieff
Variant Effect Predictor (VEP)Ensembl release 112Add annotations like gene names, consequences or deleterious predictions (AlphaMissense, SIFT and Polyphen) to variantsEMBL-EBI