Abstract

Background: The NIMH Center for Collaborative Genomic Studies on Mental Disorders (nimhgenetics. org), now known as the NIMH Repository and Genomics Resource (NRGR), was established through the NIMH Human Genetics Initiative in 1998 to leverage and increase the value of human genetic samples and data produced through NIMH funded research. NRGR plays a key role in facilitating psychiatric genetic research by providing collections of well characterized, high-quality patient and control samples from a wide range of mental disorders.
Methods: The NRGR maintains clinical data, genetic data, and biomaterial samples from over 200,000 well characterized individuals with a range of psychiatric illnesses, their family members, and unaffected controls. Clinical data include overall diagnoses and, in many cases, item-level data from assessment instruments. Biomaterials include DNA on virtually all …

Date

October 1, 2019

Authors

Brittany Ruocco, Rajiv Mayani, Shefali Sharma, Sherri Wilson, Karan Vahi, Serban Voinea, Gillian Davis, William Valentine-Cooper, Joel Mathew, Yigal Arens, Ewa Deelman, Marco Azaro, Veronica Vieland, Jose Luis Ambite, Linda Brzustowicz

Journal

European Neuropsychopharmacology

Volume

29

Pages

S173-S174

Publisher

Elsevier