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curious
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I just lifted over a VCF from hg19 to hg38 using LiftoverVcf
from GATK.
I noticed a lot of the alleles have the field ReverseComplementedAlleles
in the lifted VCF I create
For example, one record of hg19 is chrom:pos:ref:alt this:
21:11019500:T:C
but lifts over to this:
chr21:10492957:A:G
if I use UCSC's genome browser and search that position on hg 19 and hg38, the ref allele change seems to check out: https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgGateway
Is this a pretty normal phenomenon during liftover?
Looks like it happened to about 246,033 of 247,915 of my variants