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pVCF

Definition
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pVCF (project VCF, often "population VCF" in practice) refers to a cohort-scale VCF representation optimized for large multi-sample callsets and downstream analysis workflows.

Topics
Bioinformatics Formats
Related
Genomic Variant Call Format (gVCF) Variant Call Format (VCF) Genotype Calling

Why it matters in GWAS

Biobank-scale GWAS increasingly rely on cohort-wide variant matrices, and pVCF-style representations help bridge variant-calling output with scalable quality control and association analysis.

Example usage

"The project released a pVCF callset for all sequenced participants after joint genotyping and site filtering."

Genomic Variant Call Format (gVCF) Variant Call Format (VCF) Genotype Calling
Related-term network

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Node order. The current term is first. Next come every page linked from Related terms, in the same top-to-bottom order as that list. Then new terms appear in two-hop layers: for each of those direct neighbors (in that same order), their related terms are appended if not already listed. A third pass does the same for two-hop nodes. The walk stops when a fixed maximum number of nodes is reached.

References

  • Danecek P, et al. (2011). The variant call format and VCFtools. Bioinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btr330
  • HTS specifications: https://samtools.github.io/hts-specs/
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