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GeneBe API Showcase

This page demonstrates how to use the GeneBe API to query variant information. The API provides programmatic access to genomic annotations and variant data.

API presented here should be used for checking single variants. If you want to check many variants at once, please use other API endpoints that you will find in the documentation.

Documentation & Advanced Usage

Complete API documentation:docs.genebe.net/docs/api/overview/

Interactive endpoint tester:api.genebe.net/cloud/gb-api-doc/swagger-ui/

Python client for pandas:pypi.org/project/genebe/

Java CLI for VCF files:github.com/pstawinski/genebe-cli

All tools documented at:docs.genebe.net

API Request Examples for Variant: 17-1655533-C-A (hg38)

Bash / cURL Example

bash
curl "https://api.genebe.net/cloud/api-public/v1/variant?chr=17&pos=1655533&ref=C&alt=A&genome=hg38&allGenes=true"

API Response

json
{
  "variants": [
    {
      "chr": "17",
      "pos": 1655533,
      "ref": "C",
      "alt": "A",
      "effect": "missense_variant",
      "transcript": "ENST00000304992.11",
      "consequences": [
        {
          "aa_ref": "R",
          "aa_alt": "L",
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "missense_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 37,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 43,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PRPF8",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 17340,
          "hgvs_c": "c.5804G>T",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Arg1935Leu",
          "transcript": "NM_006445.4",
          "protein_id": "NP_006436.3",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
          "aa_start": 1935,
          "aa_end": null,
          "aa_length": 2335,
          "cds_start": 5804,
          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 7008,
          "cdna_start": 5903,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 7280,
          "mane_select": "ENST00000304992.11",
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "R",
          "aa_alt": "L",
          "canonical": true,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "missense_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 37,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 43,
          "intron_rank": null,
          "intron_rank_end": null,
          "gene_symbol": "PRPF8",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 17340,
          "hgvs_c": "c.5804G>T",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Arg1935Leu",
          "transcript": "ENST00000304992.11",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000304350.6",
          "transcript_support_level": 1,
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          "cdna_start": 5903,
          "cdna_end": null,
          "cdna_length": 7280,
          "mane_select": "NM_006445.4",
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "R",
          "aa_alt": "L",
          "canonical": false,
          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": false,
          "consequences": [
            "missense_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 36,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 42,
          "intron_rank": null,
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          "gene_symbol": "PRPF8",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 17340,
          "hgvs_c": "c.5804G>T",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Arg1935Leu",
          "transcript": "ENST00000572621.5",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000460348.1",
          "transcript_support_level": 5,
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          "cds_end": null,
          "cds_length": 7008,
          "cdna_start": 6070,
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          "cdna_length": 7445,
          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "R",
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          "protein_coding": true,
          "strand": false,
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            "missense_variant"
          ],
          "exon_rank": 36,
          "exon_rank_end": null,
          "exon_count": 42,
          "intron_rank": null,
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          "gene_symbol": "PRPF8",
          "gene_hgnc_id": 17340,
          "hgvs_c": "c.5669G>T",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Arg1890Leu",
          "transcript": "ENST00000703541.1",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000515363.1",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
          "aa_start": 1890,
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          "cds_start": 5669,
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          "mane_select": null,
          "mane_plus": null,
          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
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          "strand": false,
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            "missense_variant"
          ],
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          "intron_rank": null,
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          "gene_symbol": "PRPF8",
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          "hgvs_c": "c.5657G>T",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Arg1886Leu",
          "transcript": "ENST00000703540.1",
          "protein_id": "ENSP00000515362.1",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
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          "mane_select": null,
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          "biotype": null,
          "feature": null
        },
        {
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            "missense_variant"
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        {
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            "missense_variant"
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          "exon_count": 18,
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          "gene_symbol": "PRPF8",
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          "hgvs_c": "c.1550G>T",
          "hgvs_p": "p.Arg517Leu",
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          "protein_id": "ENSP00000515360.1",
          "transcript_support_level": null,
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        },
        {
          "aa_ref": "R",
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          "exon_rank": 37,
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          "hgvs_p": "p.Arg1935Leu",
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            "non_coding_transcript_exon_variant"
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      "computational_prediction_selected": "Pathogenic",
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      "splice_source_selected": "max_spliceai",
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      "revel_prediction": "Pathogenic",
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      "acmg_score": 7,
      "acmg_classification": "Likely_pathogenic",
      "acmg_criteria": "PM2,PM5,PP2,PP3_Moderate",
      "acmg_by_gene": [
        {
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            "PP3_Moderate"
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          "gene_symbol": "PRPF8",
          "hgnc_id": 17340,
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            "missense_variant"
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          "hgvs_p": "p.Arg1935Leu"
        }
      ],
      "clinvar_disease": "Retinal dystrophy",
      "clinvar_classification": "Uncertain significance",
      "clinvar_review_status": "criteria provided, single submitter",
      "clinvar_submissions_summary": "US:1",
      "phenotype_combined": "Retinal dystrophy",
      "pathogenicity_classification_combined": "Uncertain significance",
      "custom_annotations": null
    }
  ],
  "message": null
}