Is ‘forward’ the same as ‘plus’?…and other adventures in SNP allele nomenclature

This work was supported in part by the following National Institutes of Health grants: GENEVA Coordinating Center (U01 HG004446); GARNET Coordinating Center (U01 HG005157); Center for Inherited Disease Research (U01HG004438, NIH contract numbers HHSN268200782096C and HHSN268201100011I); and Broad Center for Genotyping and Analysis (U01HG04424).