The NIHR Bioresource consists of several groups of participants: ~70k from the general population and blood donors (COMPARE, INTERVAL and STRIDES studies); ~19k with one of ~50 rare diseases (RD) including a ~5k pilot for GEL; ~30k with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) which include the members of Gut Reaction, the Health Data Research Hub for IBD; and ~20k with Anxiety or depression (GLAD study). It intends to extend recruitment in all areas, and to other rare and common disease groups, with a target of ~300k by 2022. SNP chip data can be used to impute many of the (non-rare) SNPs not included on the chips. The NIHR BioResource is using a modified version of the UK Biobank protocol to improve the options for recall.

The NIHR IBD Bioresource comprises ~34k participants with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). SNP chip data can be used to impute many of the (non-rare) SNPs not included on the chips. The NIHR BioResource is using a modified version of the UK Biobank protocol to improve the options for recall.

The NIHR Bioresource consists of several groups of participants: ~70k from the general population and blood donors (COMPARE, INTERVAL and STRIDES studies); ~19k with one of ~50 rare diseases (RD) including a ~5k pilot for GEL; ~30k with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) which include the members of Gut Reaction, the Health Data Research Hub for IBD; and ~20k with Anxiety or depression (GLAD study). It intends to extend recruitment in all areas, and to other rare and common disease groups, with a target of ~300k by 2022. The NIHR BioResource extracts DNA from blood and saliva samples taken at recruitment, and measures a panel of SNPs on each DNA sample, using a commodity SNP genotyping array from e.g. Illumina or Affymetrix (now Thermofisher). This is used to pre-screen or match participants when inviting them to take part in experimental medicine studies. De-identified versions of this data is available to researchers investigating the feasibility of future studies. The Technical Metadata describes a SNP annotation file – i.e. what the chip is measuring. The file itself has as many rows as there are SNPs represented on the chip, and is proprietary to the manufacturer, although deeply familiar to researchers.