How To Get Chromosome Position Given Rs Number?

Question

[chrismas05]

I have a list of a few hundred SNPs given by rs number. I want to get the chromosome and position for each SNP. For example:

input: rs4477212 output: chr1:82154

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

duplicate of: How to get the chromosome physical position from rs numbers? , Get SNP position from a python interface.

[martin.chavez]

I created an iOS app for this exact purpose, I welcome any feedback.

http://chromioapp.com

Answer 1

[karthi.sivaraman]

you can download this information from NCBS dbSNP site. On the other hand, you can also use the SNP-nexus site. Very useful.

[chrismas05]

Thanks I got it! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/dbSNP.cgi?list=rslist

[Shicheng Guo]

SNP-nexus is quite good. However, when the rs number > 20000, it will become very slow...

Answer 2

[Emily]

BioMart. Help video here.

Use the variation dataset, short variation and indels. Then filter by rsID and choose the position as an attribute.

[Laura]

Hello Emily,

I have a data file for imputation only with rs numbers and my referecence vcf file has rsnumber:Chro:position:allele1:allele2.

Biomart has the H. sapiens variation in GRCh38 and my ref. file (1KG) is in GRCh37. How could I proceed?

[Emily]

Use the dedicated GRCh37 Ensembl site.