[HapMap announcements] HapMap data release (#16c, Jun05) available on project website:

[Gudmundur Arni Thorisson]

Dear Hapmap Announcements list subscriber. Data release #16c/June05 is 
now available on the project website, http://www.hapmap.org, and also 
the Japanese mirror site http://hapmap.jst.go.jp within days. Due to 
delays in getting this data freeze ready for release, we are releasing 
only the genotype files at this time to enable users to access primary 
data without further delay. The usual allele & genotype frequencies and 
other supplementary data, including an updated graphical browser, will 
follow shortly (1/2-3 days). Apologies for any inconvenience this 
causes users who make use of the supplementary data.
   Current status: 1,105,072 SNPs genotyped in CEPH, 1,088,689 SNPs in 
Han Chinese, 1,088,426 SNPs in Japanese and 1,076,451 SNPs in Yoruba. 
Please see the release notes at 
http://www.hapmap.org/downloads/index.html#release for breakdown by 
chromosome and further details about this release.

   ATTN: A number of problems were found in the March release (#16a), 
affecting a small number of SNPs. Most of the issues were fixed in 
interim release #16b last week. However, this release #16c fixes 
remaining issues and as such defines the final Phase I dataset on which 
analyses for the upcoming primary HapMap publication are based. Please 
see http://www.hapmap.org/downloads/datafreeze.html for more 
information on the #16* series, including description of problems found 
in #16a and lists of affected SNPs.


On behalf of the HapMap Data Coordination Center (DCC) team at
CSHL, best regards.

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Gudmundur Arni Thorisson, bioinformatics researcher
Haplotype Map project DCC group leader
Steinlab, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory