News – ADSP

3/12/2026

ADSP Phenotype Harmonization Consortium Release 4 is Out!

The fourth release from the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project Phenotype Harmonization Consortium (ADSP-PHC), which includes harmonized phenotypes...

7/14/2025

ADSP and NIAGADS Will Be at AAIC!

Updated to include an additional conference session and posters on 7/21/25. Are you going to AAIC...

6/4/2025

NIH Seeks Public Input on Responsible Development of Innovative AI Tools

NIH is committed to advancing novel AI approaches that have the potential to accelerate research and...

4/17/2025

Whole Genome Sequencing of Over 13,000 Diverse Individuals Reveals Shared and Distinct Genetic Associations With Alzheimer’s Disease Across Subpopulations

Dr. Wan-Ping Lee leads a study investigating genetic associations with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) within and across...

12/20/2024

ADSP Phenotype Harmonization Consortium Release 3 is Out!

The third release from the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project Phenotype Harmonization Consortium (ADSP-PHC), which includes harmonized...

12/18/2024

Join NIH “Community” Days to Learn About GDS Policy Updates Effective 1/25/25

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be holding “Community Days” on: Registration is required. Please...

12/13/2024

The NIAGADS Pre-Print Paper is Live at medRXiv

The NIAGADS team has been hard at work putting together a publication covering all things NIAGADS,...

12/2/2024

ADSP R5 WGS Preview Files are Here!

Round 5 of the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (NG00067v14) has been released! This release contains 22,158...

11/11/2024

Alzheimer’s and Dementia Call for Papers!

Alzheimer’s and Dementia, the journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, is releasing a special issue to celebrate...

11/4/2024

The ADSP and NIAGADS Will be at ASHG 2024, From 11/5 Through 11/9, in Denver, Colorado

Are you going to be at the American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG) 2024 Annual Meeting...

10/31/2024

New Data Available in the Alzheimer’s GenomicsDB!

This release expands the database to include: ADSP 36K R4 Variants and Annotations New and updated...

10/3/2024

ADSP Umbrella Dataset October 2024 Update: New Files Added to NG00067

New files have been released in ng00067.v13 for the R2 20K Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) and...

9/11/2024

NIAGADS Data Discovery Portal Beta Release: Gen3 Enables Exploration of the ADSP Dataset

One of the first challenges researchers face when accessing data is determining if the dataset has...

6/11/2024

A Year of Support and Resource Improvements at NIAGADS

The last 12 months have been a year of growth for user support and resources at...

5/29/2024

Looking to Explore AD Genomics? Check out NIAGADS Alzheimer’s Genomics Database

The Alzheimer’s Genomics Database is a user-friendly AD-centric interactive knowledgebase and genome browser, which provides unrestricted...

5/21/2024

Updates to the Data Access Request Management (DARM) and Data Sharing Service (DSS) Portals

The NIAGADS team has been hard at work writing and testing code to improve user experience...

3/18/2024

Creating the Largest Joint-Called Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) Dataset for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)

Over the last 20 years, the technology for DNA sequencing has rapidly evolved, making it possible...

2/9/2024

15 Genotyping Array Datasets From the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers (ADRC) Now Available!

We are thrilled to announce the release of 15 much-anticipated genotyping array datasets from participants recruited...

1/5/2024

Introducing hipFG: A high-throughput harmonization and integration pipeline for genomic annotations, QTLs, and chromatin interactions

A major challenge facing researchers today is the cleanup and harmonization of data for use in their...

12/12/2023

Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project Update: Round 2 of the Harmonized Phenotypes and R4 36KAnnotations Released

A new version of ng00067, the ADSP Umbrella Dataset is available on NIAGADS DSS. The ng00067.v11release...

8/16/2023

ADSP R4 Quality-controlled Data for WGS Bi-allelic Autosomes is Here!

The ADSP has recently unveiled an updated version of the dataset (ng00067.v10) that encompasses valuable genetic...

10/10/2022

ADSP Releases Additional 19K Whole Genomes via NIAGADS DSS

On October 6, 2022, the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP) released a new dataset comprised of...

6/29/2022

NIA Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Portfolio, ADSP and Data Sharing

Check out the latest NIA blog post by Marilyn Miller which highlights how to access data...

10/29/2021

ADSP releases quality-controlled whole-genome data on nearly 17,000 samples

NIAGADS is pleased to announce the release of the Release 3 (R3) WGS ADSP quality-controlled joint...

9/23/2021

ADSP Functional Genomics Consortium Launch

ADSP, the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project, has emerged as a powerful tool for genetics researchers in...

3/3/2021

NIAGADS DSS Releases Additional 17K Whole Genomes

NIAGADS is pleased to announce the release of whole genome sequencing (WGS) data from 16,906 samples...

3/1/2021

NIAGADS DSS Releases Additional 17K Whole Genomes

NIAGADS is pleased to announce the release of whole genome sequencing (WGS) data from 16,906 samples through the...

9/24/2020

Additional Whole Exomes Released on NIAGADS DSS

NIAGADS is pleased to announce the release of whole exome sequencing (WES) data from 20,504 samples through...

8/31/2020

Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Global Symposium

The Alzheimer’s Association and the National Institute on Aging have organized a virtual symposium on the...

7/24/2020

NIA Releases Resource Page for Alzheimer’s Disease Data

Recently, a new page called “How Researchers Can Tap into Data and Samples from Alzheimer’s Disease...

2/19/2020

NIAGADS DSS Releases 20K Whole Exomes

NIAGADS is pleased to announce the release of 19,922 whole exomes called on GRCh38 through the...

11/1/2018

Additional ADSP Data Released

We are pleased to announce a new data release on the NIAGADS Data Sharing Service (DSS)....

9/4/2018

Collaboration with ADNI

In a collaboration with LONI, GCAD has recalled the 809 ADNI-WGS-1 whole genomes using the VCPA 1.0...

9/4/2018

First Dataset Released

The NIAGADS DSS currently hosts ADSP Discovery+ Extension whole genome data from 854 subjects in 159...

9/4/2018

NIAGADS DSS is now live!

NIAGADS is pleased to announce that its Data Sharing Service is now live. The NIAGADS DSS...

8/15/2018

Penn Medicine Press Release Highlights New Data Sharing Service

Recently, Penn Medicine News wrote a press release describing the new NIAGADS Data Sharing Service (DSS),...