What We Do

The NIMH Repository and Genomics Resource (NRGR) is one of several data repositories funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We are the only NIH repository that specializes in offering the research community DNA, RNA, and cell lines from large collections of individuals with psychiatric illness and neurotypical controls.

Different data repositories specialize in managing different types of data, and data from a single individual may be deposited into multiple different repositories. The NIH, guided by the new strategic plan for data science, is working to optimize integration between repositories to maximize the utility of all collected data. Currently researchers may need to navigate several additional repositories to obtain all available data on a given subject:

• The NIMH Data Archive (NDA) holds clinical, imaging, and neurosignal data on subjects from a wide range of NIMH-funded studies, including those represented in the NRGR.
• The database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP) is an NIH-wide repository of phenotypic and genomic data. Certain studies represented by the NRGR may also have genomic data available in dbGaP.