Variant interpretations from Illumina double ClinVar data

On Dec 7, 2016, ClinVar released 138,334 variant interpretations submitted by Illumina Clinical Services Laboratory (ICSL) in San Diego, CA. This dataset represents a 57% increase in the number of submitted interpretations and makes ICSL the largest source of data in ClinVar. The contribution from ICSL also provides 78,590 novel variants to the database, an increase of 45% over the previous total of 173,782 variants.
Source: NCBI Announcements - Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news