GWAS Catalog adds sequencing data, links to Polygenic Score Catalog
The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog now holds variant-trait associations from more than 45,000 published genome-wide association studies covering over 5,000 human traits, plus more than 40,000 full summary statistics datasets, according to the team that curates it at the European Bioinformatics Institute. GWAS data volume has grown sharply in recent years, so the team updated its software to handle the scale and to release submitted summary statistics faster. The repository's scope now covers sequencing-based GWAS, gene-based analyses and copy number variation analyses. Links to the Polygenic Score Catalog and the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium have also grown, and outreach efforts have brought in more shared datasets from under-represented traits such as cancer.
A larger, better-linked GWAS repository could make published genetic association data easier for researchers to find and reuse.
Source: The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog: knowledgebase and deposition resource. (doi.org).
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