# Local\_to\_global: local alleles not strictly increasing: \[0,2,1\]
**URL:** https://discuss.hail.is/t/local-to-global-local-alleles-not-strictly-increasing-0-2-1/2958
**Category:** Hail Query & hailctl
**Created:** [November 30, 2022, 11:27pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/local-to-global-local-alleles-not-strictly-increasing-0-2-1/2958 "2022-11-30T23:27:09Z")
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### Author:  [@Jennifer](https://discuss.hail.is/u/Jennifer)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2022, 11:27pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/local-to-global-local-alleles-not-strictly-increasing-0-2-1/2958/1 "2022-11-30T23:27:09Z")
Hello,
I’m using the function hl.vds.local\_to\_global() to convert LAD to AD, and got this error “Error summary: HailException: local\_to\_global: local alleles not strictly increasing: [0,2,1]”. Do you know what would be the cause? Thanks!
Here is my command in case helpful.
```python
mt = vds.variant_data.annotate_entries(
AD = hl.vds.local_to_global(vds.variant_data.LAD,
vds.variant_data.LA,
n_alleles=hl.len(vds.variant_data.alleles),
fill_value=0,
number='R')
)
```
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### Author:  [@danking](https://discuss.hail.is/u/danking)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/local-to-global-local-alleles-not-strictly-increasing-0-2-1/2958/2 "2022-11-30T23:59:22Z")
Hmm. I’m not sure what the issue is. Let me tag in our VDS expert, @tpoterba .
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### Author:  [@tpoterba](https://discuss.hail.is/u/tpoterba)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2022, 12:45am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/local-to-global-local-alleles-not-strictly-increasing-0-2-1/2958/3 "2022-12-01T00:45:31Z")
is this an AoU VDS? Can you share the script so we know any transormatinos that occurred between the read and error?
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### Author:  [@Jennifer](https://discuss.hail.is/u/Jennifer)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2022, 12:53am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/local-to-global-local-alleles-not-strictly-increasing-0-2-1/2958/4 "2022-12-01T00:53:57Z")
> [@tpoterba](#):
>
> transormatinos
Yes, this is an AoU VDS. The script is simple. Just read vds and then transform. Thanks for checking!
vds = hl.vds.read\_vds(vds\_path)
mt = vds.variant\_data.annotate\_entries(
AD = hl.vds.local\_to\_global(vds.variant\_data.LAD,
vds.variant\_data.LA,
n\_alleles=hl.len(vds.variant\_data.alleles),
fill\_value=0,
number=‘R’)
)
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### Author:  [@Jennifer](https://discuss.hail.is/u/Jennifer)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2022, 3:17pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/local-to-global-local-alleles-not-strictly-increasing-0-2-1/2958/5 "2022-12-02T15:17:58Z")
In case it is helpful, I can successfully convert LGT to GT in the same vds using hl.experimental.lgt\_to\_gt().
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### Author:  [@tpoterba](https://discuss.hail.is/u/tpoterba)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/local-to-global-local-alleles-not-strictly-increasing-0-2-1/2958/6 "2022-12-02T15:30:29Z")
I think this is a bug in `hl.vds.local_to_global` – I was too strict making this check in order to generate slightly faster code.
Here’s a tracking issue:
>
>
> Nothing in the VDS representation disallows unsorted LA.
I hope to have some time to make a patch this afternoon