gwasrapidd (version 0.99.17)

open_in_gwas_catalog: Browse GWAS Catalog entities from the GWAS Web Graphical User Interface

Description

This function launches the web browser and opens a tab for each identifier on the GWAS web graphical user interface: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas.

Usage

open_in_gwas_catalog(
  identifier,
  gwas_catalog_entity = c("study", "variant", "trait", "gene", "region", "publication")
)

Value

Returns TRUE if successful, or FALSE otherwise. But note that this function is run for its side effect.

Arguments

identifier

A vector of identifiers. The identifiers can be: study accession identifiers, variant identifiers, EFO trait identifiers, gene symbol names, cytogenetic regions, or PubMed identifiers.

gwas_catalog_entity

Either 'study' (default), 'variant', 'trait', 'gene', 'region' or 'publication', a scalar character. This argument indicates the type of the identifiers passed in identifier.

Examples

# Open studies in GWAS Web Graphical User Interface
open_in_gwas_catalog(c('GCST000016', 'GCST001115'))

# Open variants
open_in_gwas_catalog(c('rs146992477', 'rs56261590'),
  gwas_catalog_entity = 'variant')

# Open EFO traits
open_in_gwas_catalog(c('EFO_0004884', 'EFO_0004343'),
  gwas_catalog_entity = 'trait')

# Open genes
open_in_gwas_catalog(c('DPP6', 'MCCC2'),
  gwas_catalog_entity = 'gene')

# Open cytogenetic regions
open_in_gwas_catalog(c('2q37.1', '1p36.11'),
  gwas_catalog_entity = 'region')

# Open publications
open_in_gwas_catalog(c('25533513', '24376627'),
  gwas_catalog_entity = 'publication')