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GMAF

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Global minor allele frequency.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_allele_frequency

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/docs/rs_attributes.html#gmaf

Global minor allele frequency (MAF): dbSNP is reporting the minor allele frequency for each rs included in a default global population. Since this is being provided to distinguish common polymorphism from rare variants, the MAF is actually the second most frequent allele value. In other words, if there are 3 alleles, with frequencies of 0.50, 0.49, and 0.01, the MAF will be reported as 0.49. The current default global population is 1000Genome phase 1 genotype data from 1094 worldwide individuals, released in the May 2011 dataset.