# Having a shared variant model between the Genetics Portal and the Platform

**URL:** <https://community.opentargets.org/t/having-a-shared-variant-model-between-the-genetics-portal-and-the-platform/1053>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Tags:** data-updates\
**Created:** [20 April 2023 13:49 UTC](https://community.opentargets.org/t/having-a-shared-variant-model-between-the-genetics-portal-and-the-platform/1053 "2023-04-20T13:49:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [20 April 2023 13:49 UTC](https://community.opentargets.org/t/having-a-shared-variant-model-between-the-genetics-portal-and-the-platform/1053/1 "2023-04-20T13:49:34Z")

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On the Platform, a growing number of evidence sources have some sort of variant information, however at this point, variant information is just an annotation. Having a variant entity would be highly advantageous as it would allow linking evidence from different sources. Also this would allow to share disease/target evidence (eg. from ClinVar) on the variant page on the Genetics Portal.