OMIM Alleles Track Settings
 
OMIM Allelic Variant Phenotypes   (All Phenotype and Disease Associations tracks)

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Data schema/format description and download
Assembly: Human Mar. 2006 (NCBI36/hg18)
Data last updated at UCSC: 2024-03-13

Description

NOTE:
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OMIM is a compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes. The full-text, referenced overviews in OMIM contain information on all known Mendelian disorders and over 12,000 genes. OMIM is authored and edited at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, under the direction of Dr. Ada Hamosh. This database was initiated in the early 1960s by Dr. Victor A. McKusick as a catalog of Mendelian traits and disorders, entitled Mendelian Inheritance in Man (MIM).

The OMIM data are separated into three separate tracks:

OMIM Alellic Variant Phenotypes (OMIM Alleles)
    Variants in the OMIM database that have associated dbSNP identifiers.

OMIM Gene Phenotypes (OMIM Genes)
    The genomic positions of gene entries in the OMIM database. The coloring indicates the associated OMIM phenotype map key.

OMIM Cytogenetic Loci Phenotypes - Gene Unknown (OMIM Cyto Loci)
    Regions known to be associated with a phenotype, but for which no specific gene is known to be causative. This track also includes known multi-gene syndromes.


This track shows the allelic variants in the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database that have associated dbSNP identifiers.

Note: The latest OMIM annotation contains many variants found only in dbSNP build 132, which is available only for the GRCh37/hg19 assembly. This (hg18) track was built with dbSNP build 130 annotations and is therefore missing many entries. We srongly encourage users to use the GRCh37/hg19 OMIM Alleles track instead of this one if possible.

Display Conventions and Configuration

Genomic positions of OMIM allelic variants are marked by solid blocks, which appear as tick marks when zoomed out.

The details page for each variant displays the allelic variant description, the amino acid replacement, and the dbSNP identifier, with a link to that variant's details page in the "SNPs (130)" track.

The descriptions of OMIM entries are shown on the main browser display when Full display mode is chosen. In Pack mode, the descriptions are shown when mousing over each entry.

Methods

This track was constructed as follows:

  • The OMIM allelic variant data file mimAV.txt was obtained from OMIM and loaded into the MySQL table omimAv.
  • The genomic position for each allelic variant in omimAv with an associated dbSnp identifier was obtained from the snp130 table. The OMIM AV identifiers and their corresponding genomic positions from dbSNP were then loaded into the omimAvSnp table.

Credits

Thanks to OMIM and NCBI for the use of their data. This track was constructed by Fan Hsu, Robert Kuhn, and Brooke Rhead of the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group.

References

Amberger J, Bocchini CA, Scott AF, Hamosh A. McKusick's Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM®). Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 Jan;37(Database issue):D793-6. Epub 2008 Oct 8.

Hamosh A, Scott AF, Amberger JS, Bocchini CA, McKusick VA. Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM), a knowledgebase of human genes and genetic disorders. Nucleic Acids Res. 2005 Jan 1;33(Database issue):D514-7.