fetchClinvar: Fetch missense variants in ClinVar for given gene

Description Usage Arguments Value

Description

Makes a query to the NCBI webservice to fetch the ClinVar entries for the given gene and filters them down to missense variants

Usage

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fetchClinvar(gene, stagger = TRUE, overrideCache = FALSE,
  logger = NULL)

Arguments

gene

gene name as in ClinVar (e.g. 'CALM1')

stagger

logical determining whether HTTP requests should be staggered by a third of a second to avoid rejection by the server. Defaults to TRUE.

overrideCache

logical determining whether local cache should be overridden

logger

a yogilogger object to write log messages to. Defaults to NULL

Value

a data.frame with the following columns:


jweile/maveclin documentation built on May 4, 2019, 3:08 a.m.