title: The Database of Genomic Variants: a curated collection of structural variation in the human genome.
abstract: Over the past decade, the Database of Genomic Variants (DGV; http://dgv.tcag.ca/) has provided a publicly accessible, comprehensive curated catalogue of structural variation (SV) found in the genomes of control individuals from worldwide populations. Here, we describe updates and new features, which have expanded the utility of DGV for both the basic research and clinical diagnostic communities. The current version of DGV consists of 55 published studies, comprising >2.5 million entries identified in >22,300 genomes. Studies included in DGV are selected from the accessioned data sets in the archival SV databases dbVar (NCBI) and DGVa (EBI), and then further curated for accuracy and validity. The core visualization tool (gbrowse) has been upgraded with additional functions to facilitate data analysis and comparison, and a new query tool has been developed to provide flexible and interactive access to the data. The content from DGV is regularly incorporated into other large-scale genome reference databases and represents a standard data resource for new product and database development, in particular for copy number variation testing in clinical labs. The accurate cataloguing of variants in DGV will continue to enable medical genetics and genome sequencing research.
authors.affiliation: The Centre for Applied Genomics, Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning, The Hospital for Sick Children, 686 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala SE-751 08, Sweden and Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada.
authors.forename: Jeffrey R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: MacDonald
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ziman
authors.forename: Ryan K C
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Yuen
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Feuk
authors.forename: Stephen W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Scherer
mesh_terms: D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D004194:Disease / Q000235:genetics; D015894:Genome, Human; D056914:Genomic Structural Variation; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet