A repository for annotations of novel variants in ACpop, a whole-genome sequenced northern Swedish population. Variants were called as described in [1]. Novel variants are defined as not being present in dbSNP 150.

The cohort consists of 300 whole-genome sequenced (30x) individuals from Västerbotten County in northern Sweden. Initially selected to function as a control population in cancer studies in northern Sweden. Samples must have had reached an age of at least 80 years and never been diagnosed with cancer. A VCF file with aggregated data is available from The Swedish Frequency resource for genomics (SweFreq): https://swefreq.nbis.se/dataset/ACpop.

Variant deleteriousness scores were annotated with the Combined Annotation Dependent Depletion (CADD) software [2-3]. Functional effects were predicted using the Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) [4] software from Ensembl.

The VariantID column in ACpop_CADD.tsv.gz contain custom variant IDs that match those in the #Uploaded_variation column in ACpop_VEP.tsv.gz.

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[3] - Rentzsch P, Witten D, Cooper GM, Shendure J, Kircher M. CADD: predicting the deleteriousness of variants throughout the human genome. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019;47(D1):D886-D894. doi:10.1093/nar/gky1016

[4] - McLaren W, Gil L, Hunt SE, Riat HS, Ritchie GR, Thormann A, Flicek P, Cunningham F. The Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor. Genome Biology Jun 6;17(1):122. (2016) doi:10.1186/s13059-016-0974-4