About NRGR
The National Institute of Mental Health Repository and Genomics Resource (NRGR) is a centralized national biorepository funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NRGR provides to the research community DNA, RNA, cell lines, and other biospecimens from large collections of individuals with psychiatric illness along with neurotypical controls.
NRGR provides basic demographic and diagnostic data for all biospecimens. Genotype, DNA sequence, and gene expression data associated with a subset of biospecimens are available through the National Data Archive (NDA).
Partnership
The NRGR has partnered with the Coriell Institute for Medical Research to sustain, enhance, and enrich NRGR for genetic and cellular studies of psychiatric disorders to facilitate and accelerate the scientific understanding of the genetic risk architecture and basic biology underlying mental disorders.
This effort involves a functionally integrated, multi-disciplinary team that manages the broad sharing of biospecimens and data resources through a single, centralized, national resource to advance basic and translational research in the genetics of mental disorders.