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Update man page to prevent future confusion as in #1851
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Note that filter options below dealing with counting the number of alleles
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will, for speed, first check for the values of AC and AN in the INFO column to
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avoid parsing all the genotype (FORMAT/GT) fields in the VCF. This means
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that a filter like '--min-af 0.1' will be calculated from INFO/AC and INFO/AN
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when available or FORMAT/GT otherwise. However, it will not attempt to use any other existing
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field, like INFO/AF for example. For that, use '--exclude AF<0.1' instead.
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that filters like '--uncalled', --exclude-uncalled', or '--min-af 0.1' will be calculated from INFO/AC and
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INFO/AN when available or FORMAT/GT otherwise. However, it will not attempt to use any other existing field,
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like INFO/AF for example. For that, use '--exclude AF<0.1' instead.
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Also note that one must be careful when sample subsetting and filtering is performed in a single command
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because the order of internal operations can influence the result. For example, the *-i/-e* filtering
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most frequent ('nonmajor') alleles.
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*-u, --uncalled*::
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print sites without a called genotype
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print sites without a called genotype, i.e. print sites with all genotypes
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missing. Note that the missingness is determined from INFO/AN and AC tags
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when available to avoid parsing sample fields.
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*-U, --exclude-uncalled*::
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exclude sites without a called genotype
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exclude sites without a called genotype, i.e. print sites with at least one
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non-missing genotype. Note that the missingness is determined from INFO/AN
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and AC tags when available to avoid parsing sample fields.
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*-v, --types* 'snps'|'indels'|'mnps'|'other'::
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comma-separated list of variant types to select. Site is selected if

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