Problems Extracting Non-Snps From A Vcf File

Hello,

In an SNP analysis, I am trying to extract those editing sites no found in the dbSNPs vcf file I have downloaded a couple of files (All SNPs and Common/Medical SNPs) from ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/snp/organisms/human_9606/VCF.

Following this, I have compared my VarScan *.vcf outputs with the SNP.vcf ones using 3 different approaches:

VarScan compare input.vcf SNP.vcf unique1 input-SNPvcf

bedtools intersect -v -a input.vcf -b SNP.vcf > input-SNP.vcf

bedops --not-element-of -1  input-sorted.bed SNP-sorted.bed > inputs-sorted-SNP.bed

In all 3 cases, the SNP-output is identical to the input.vcf/bed.

These command-lines however work when I use an alu.bed or a repeat-masker-bed.

Is it just that my analysis contains no known SNPs? I have discarded for obvious reasons.

Can somebody point a the reason/solution to this problem?

Thanks, G.