On Feb. 26 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that researchers will now have access to genetic data linked to medical information on a diverse group of more than 78,000 people, enabling investigations into the potential genetic underpinnings of a variety of diseases that affect people in adulthood, including depression and insomnia. The data, from one of the nation’s largest and most diverse genomics projects — Genetic Epidemiology Research on Aging (GERA) — have just been made available to qualified researchers through the database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP), an online genetics database of the National Institutes of Health.
