slow going...

[mellowtigger]

Does "8636C>A (rs1804197)" mean that the cytosine base is associated with the risk-in-question as opposed to the adenine base which is the standard form?  Argh!
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/114025178/abstract

I'm having similar problems interpreting spreadsheets of data whose column headers are abbreviations, but I don't know what the abbreviations mean.  :(
http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol0/issue2007/images/data/ddm015/DC1/ddm015supptab1.xls

I tried loading my data file into the OpenOffice database, but it has no import function!  You have to copy-and-paste from their spreadsheet program but it limits files to 65k rows of data.  *SIGH*  I guess I won't quickly be getting statistics about deletions and no-call results.  I need a full-blown Microsoft Access program, I think, or else better familiarity with importing into other SQL databases.

*grrrrr*  Time to go to work.  Pesky "earn a living" process.

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[foeclan.livejournal.com]

Does "8636C>A (rs1804197)" mean that the cytosine base is associated with the risk-in-question as opposed to the adenine base which is the standard form?

Yes.

I tried loading my data file into the OpenOffice database, but it has no import function!

Did you try MS Office? Excel should have an import function.

[mellowtigger]

I looked at the package you offered, but it did not include MS Access. I would have the same problem with Excel, the 65,536 row limit. My dataset is over half a million rows of data. :(

[mellowtigger]

Do you know what the "8636" refers to? I didn't see it mentioned anywhere else in the abstract.

[foeclan.livejournal.com]

It's the location. There's a SNP at nucleotide 8636 (aka rs1804197; rs means 'reference SNP'). There's some info here (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP/snp_ref.cgi?rs=1804197). A good place to start on any search is NCBI (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/). You can search all the NCBI databases from that page, and it will give you a list of which have hits (in this case, PubMed, the SNP database, and the probe database).