Table 1.

Summary of biorepositories and electronic medical records (EMRs) at 10 eMERGE-Institutions. Adapted from Gottesman et al. (2013).

Institution	Biorepository	Recruitment model	Biorepository size	Race/ethnicity and age of donors
Boston Children’s Hospital	Gene Partnership	Outpatient and hospital-based	3,372	83% European 9% African 6% Asian 11% Hispanic/Latino Mean age: 23 years
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia	A Study of the Genetic Causes of Complex Pediatric Disorders	Population-based and disease-specific	60,000 internal (plus 100,000 external)	47.0% European 43.3% African 7.0% Admixed 1.7% Asian 0.8% Hispanic 0.2% Native Amer. Mean age: 11 years
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital	Better Outcomes for Children	Outpatient and hospital-based	8,472	73% European 10% African Mean age: 9 years
Geisinger Clinic	MyCode®	Population-based and disease-specific	35,000	98% European Age: < 89 years
Group Health Seattle	ACT Study; Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Registry (ADPR); Northwest Institute of Genetic Medicine (NWIGM)	Disease-specific and HMO-based	5,859	92% European Age: > 50 years
Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation	Personalized Medicine Research Project	Population-based	20,000	98% European Mean age: 48 years
Mayo Clinic	Vascular disease biorepository (VDB); Mayo Clinic Biobank; other disease-specific	Outpatient-based	36,000	97% European Mean age: 63 years
Mount Sinai School of Medicine	BioMeTM, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine Biobank Program	Outpatient and hospital-based	25,000	40% Hispanic/Latino 25% African 25% European
Northwestern University	NUgene	Outpatient and hospital-based	12,000	9% Hispanic/Latino 12% African 78% European Mean age: 48 years
Vanderbilt University	BioVU	Outpatient and hospital-based	155,000	2% Hispanic/Latino 15% African 80% European Mean age: 49 years