Can I submit structural variation data from human clinical or cancer studies?
Yes, dbVar can hold clinical data. However, there are patient privacy issues to which we must adhere. If the patients involved in the study have not been consented to have their genome fully available in a public sequence archive we must remove identifying information from the record. In practice, this means making sure that two variants are not associated as originating from the same patient. The pathway for this is to submit data to dbGaP. dbGaP will hold identifying data that will be available to approved investigators. dbGaP will anonymize the data and submit variant summary data to dbVar.
