The National Institutes of Health will provide researchers with access to genetic data linked to medical information on a diverse group of more than 78,000 people with an average age of 63, the agency has announced.
The NIH made the data from the Genetic Epidemiology Research on Aging (GERA) genomics project available to qualified researchers through the Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP), which is NIH’s online genetics database, available on 26 February.
The move was made possible with $24.9 million from NIH’s National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institute of Mental Health, and the agency’s Office of the Director. In addition, the GERA cohort was developed collaboratively by Kaiser Permanente and the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF). In fact, Catherine Schaefer, of Kaiser Permanente Northern California, and UCSF’s Neil Risch are co-principal investigators for GERA.
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