getSNP {biomaRt}R Documentation

Retrieves SNP's between a given chromosome start and end position

Description

Retrieves SNP's between a given chromosome start and end position

Usage

getSNP( chromosome, start, end, mart)

Arguments

chromosome Chromosome name
start start position on given chromosome
end end position on given chromosome
mart object of class Mart, containing connections to the BioMart databases. You can create such an object using the function useMart.

Author(s)

Steffen Durinck, http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~sdurinck

Examples

if(interactive()){
mart <- useMart("snp",dataset="hsapiens_snp")

snp = getSNP(chromosome = 8, start = 148350, end = 148612, mart = mart)
show(snp)

}

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