There is a link to “VarView” in the Allele column of the cluster report for a number of refSNPs I’m looking at. What exactly is “VarView”?
“VarView” (short for “Variation Viewer”) icons or links result in a gene-specific display named for the variation view of the gene in question: “[Gene Symbol]” + “Variation Viewer” (e.g. MECP2 Variation Viewer). VarView is an improved alternative to dbSNP’s GeneView in that it contains more intuitive packaging of the data found in dbSNP records (e.g. HGVS names, numbers of observations, clinical associations, links to OMIM and Locus-specific databases (LSDB), citations, etc.).
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