Alterlab Gwas

alterlab-ieu/alterlab-gwas

Query the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog REST API for SNP-trait associations, retrieving variants by rs ID, disease/trait, or gene along with p-values and summary statistics. Use when investigating genome-wide association study hits, mapping a SNP or rsID to traits, building polygenic risk scores, or doing genetic epidemiology lookups. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-gwas

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take alterlab-ieu/alterlab-gwas from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.