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Short Name	Title	TOPMed Accession #	Description	Ethics statement
PVDOMICS	Pulmonary Vascular Disease Omics Analyses	phs002451		All PVDOMICS participants provided informed consent, and the study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at each enrolling site and at the Data Coordinating Center at the Cleveland Clinic.
REDS-III_Brazil	Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study-III	phs001468
SAFS	Whole Genome Sequencing to Identify Causal Genetic Variants Influencing CVD Risk - San Antonio Family Studies	phs001215		All SAFS participants provided informed consent, and the study was approved by Institutional Review Board at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
SAGE	Study of African Americans, Asthma, Genes and Environment	phs000921	The Study of African Americans, Asthma, Genes, & Environments (SAGE) and the Genes-Environments and Admixture in Latino Americans (GALA II) study both began in 2006 and are parallel case-control studies with similar protocols and questionnaires. Subjects were recruited from 5 urban study centers across the mainland United States and Puerto Rico (Oh et al, 2012 Table E1 (2)); SAGE subjects were recruited only from the San Francisco Bay Area. All subjects were 8 to 21 years old with physician-diagnosed asthma (cases) and no history of other lung or chronic illnesses (cases and controls); active smokers were excluded. Parents and grandparents must have self-identified as Latino (GALA II) or black (SAGE). Additional inclusion/exclusion criteria are detailed in Oh et al, 2012 Table E2 (2). SAGE also included a small number of subjects (300 cases and 300 controls between the ages of 8 and 40 years) with similar protocols and questionnaires adapted from GALA I (1). Each participating center’s institutional review board reviewed and approved the study. Written informed consent was provided by each child’s parent or legal guardian and if 18 and older, by the subject. 1. Burchard EG, Avila PC, Nazario S, Casal J, Torres A, Rodriguez-Santana JR, et al. Lower bronchodilator responsiveness in Puerto Rican than in Mexican subjects with asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2004 Feb 1;169(3):386-92. 2. Oh SS, Tcheurekdjian H, Roth LA, Nguyen EA, Sen S, Galanter JM, et al. Effect of secondhand smoke on asthma control among black and Latino children. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2012 Jun;129(6):1478,83.e7.
SAGE ATGC	ATGC Study of African Americans, Asthma, Genes and Environment	phs000921	The Study of African Americans, Asthma, Genes, & Environments (SAGE) and the Genes-Environments and Admixture in Latino Americans (GALA II) study both began in 2006 and are parallel case-control studies with similar protocols and questionnaires. Subjects were recruited from 5 urban study centers across the mainland United States and Puerto Rico (Oh et al, 2012 Table E1 (2)); SAGE subjects were recruited only from the San Francisco Bay Area. All subjects were 8 to 21 years old with physician-diagnosed asthma (cases) and no history of other lung or chronic illnesses (cases and controls); active smokers were excluded. Parents and grandparents must have self-identified as Latino (GALA II) or black (SAGE). Additional inclusion/exclusion criteria are detailed in Oh et al, 2012 Table E2 (2). SAGE also included a small number of subjects (300 cases and 300 controls between the ages of 8 and 40 years) with similar protocols and questionnaires adapted from GALA I (1). Each participating center’s institutional review board reviewed and approved the study. Written informed consent was provided by each child’s parent or legal guardian and if 18 and older, by the subject. 1. Burchard EG, Avila PC, Nazario S, Casal J, Torres A, Rodriguez-Santana JR, et al. Lower bronchodilator responsiveness in Puerto Rican than in Mexican subjects with asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2004 Feb 1;169(3):386-92. 2. Oh SS, Tcheurekdjian H, Roth LA, Nguyen EA, Sen S, Galanter JM, et al. Effect of secondhand smoke on asthma control among black and Latino children. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2012 Jun;129(6):1478,83.e7.
Samoan	Samoan Adiposity Study	phs000972		All Samoan study participants provided written informed consent, and the study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at Brown University, and the Health Research Committee of the Samoa Ministry of Health.
SAPPHIRE_asthma	Study of Asthma Phenotypes & Pharmacogenomic Interactions by Race-Ethnicity	phs001467		All SAPPHIRE participants provided informed consent, and the study was approved by the Institutional Review Board for Henry Ford Health System.
Sarcoidosis	Genetics of Sarcoidosis in African Americans	phs001207	Sarcoidosis patients, their relatives and unrelated controls were typed using whole genome sequencing to identify genetic variants associated with susceptibility, severity and specific disease manifestation.	All sarcoidosis study participants provided informed consent, and the study was approved by the IRB at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.
SARP	Severe Asthma Research Program	phs001446
SCVI	Stanford Cardiovascular Institute iPSC Biobank Study	phs002338