New recombination rate tracks for hg38

[Gerardo Perez]

Hello Everyone,

We are pleased to announce the new recombination rate tracks for the GRCh38/hg38 genome browser. This track represents calculated rates of recombination based on the genetic maps from deCODE and 1000 Genomes. These tracks are organized in a super track that includes three subtracks with the deCODE recombination rates (paternal, maternal, and average) and one subtrack with the 1000 Genomes recombination rate, which was lifted from hg19 and can be used as a drop-in replacement for the GRCh37/hg19 track. Note that the deCODE recombination rate data is newer and has a higher resolution. Also, two subtracks that show additional details provided by deCODE: one with the raw data of all cross-overs tagged with their proband ID and another one with around 8000 human de-novo mutation variants that are linked to cross-over changes.

• deCODE Genetics, average from paternal and maternal
• deCODE Genetics, paternal
• deCODE Genetics, maternal
• Recombination events in deCODE Genetic Map
• De-novo mutations found in deCODE samples
• 1000 Genomes, lifted from hg19

More information on these tracks can be found on the track description page. We would like to thank deCODE genetics, the 1000 Genomes Project, and contributors for doing the research and making their data accessible. Thanks to Po-Ru Loh at the Broad Institute for lifting and helping import the 1000 Genomes data to hg38. We would also like to thank Maximilian Haeussler and Gerardo Perez for their work in creating and releasing these tracks. If you have questions, feedback, or suggestions on this new track, please contact one of our Genome Browser support emails.