Table 1.

Identifiers used by ClinVar

Name Scope Examples
SCV accession.version Assigned to a submissionSCV000065090.1
RCV accession.version Assigned to an aggregationRCV000008391.2
AlleleID Assigned to one variation22968
rs# Identifier assigned by dbSNP to a type of variant at a location on an assemblyrs238
nsv# Identifier assigned by dbVar to a variant regionnsv513782

From: ClinVar

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