The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website posts the database of Genotype and Phenotype (dbGaP) which was developed to archive and distribute the results of studies that have investigated the interaction of genotype and phenotype. Such studies include genome-wide association studies, medical sequencing, molecular diagnostic assays, as well as association between genotype and non-clinical traits. The advent of high-throughput, cost-effective methods for genotyping and sequencing has provided powerful tools that allow for the generation of the massive amount of genotypic data required to make these analyses possible.
dbGaP provides two levels of access - open and controlled - in order to allow broad release of non-sensitive data, while providing oversight and investigator accountability for sensitive data sets involving personal health information. Summaries of studies and the contents of measured variables as well as original study document text are generally available to the public, while access to individual-level data including phenotypic data tables and genotypes require varying levels of authorization.
The dbGaP data for those samples those samples which are banked at the NINDS Human Genetics Repository (Coriell) can be cross-referenced with biological materials and phenotypic data collected for Parkinson ’s disease subjects and controls, and data on several studies outside of the NINDS and the Repository are also posted on dbGaP.
The data in dbGaP will be pre-competitive, and will not be protected by intellectual property patents. Investigators who agree to the terms of dbGaP data use may not restrict other investigators' use of primary dbGaP data by filing intellectual property patents on it. However, the use of primary data from dbGaP to develop commercial products and tests to meet public health needs is encouraged.
Link to database of Genotype and Phenotype (dbGaP)