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Our Future Health Genotype Array Data
Population Size
650,979
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Years
2021 - 2025
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None/not available
Geographic coverage
United Kingdom
Lead time
1-2 months
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Our Future Health is a prospective, observational cohort study of the general adult population of the United Kingdom (UK). The programme aims to support a wide range of observational health research. We gather personal, health and lifestyle information from each participant through a self-completed baseline health questionnaire and at an in-person clinic visit. We will further link this data to other health-related data sets. Participants have also given consent for us to recontact them, for example to invite them to take part in further or repeat data collections, or other embedded studies such as clinical trials.
The Our Future Health programme is currently open to all adults (18 years and older) living in the UK. In July 2022, we started recruiting participants in England and will continue to expand across the rest of the UK. The data we’ve gathered so far (June 2025) includes genotype array data on 707,522 variants and 650,979 participants.
These data were obtained using a custom Illumina Infinium Excalibur beadchip array, designed by Our Future Health in collaboration with Illumina. The array includes variants related to a wide range of health phenotypes, blood typing, pharmacogenetics, selected copy number variants, clinically relevant variants, and a “backbone” of variants to support imputation.
A separate, linked dataset is available that provides participant baseline demographic information and responses to our baseline health questionnaire. Clinical measurements data is also available from participants. Additionally linked NHS England data that provides clinical information on participants is also available.
The data is stored in the Our Future Health Trusted Research Environment. We de-identify all participant data we gather before it’s available for use. All researchers will need to become registered researchers at Our Future Health and have an approved research study before they're given access to the data.
We aim to collect a variety of data types from up to 5 million adult participants from across the UK. We hope to make more data types available on a quarterly basis.
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Observed Node | Disambiguating Description | Measured Value | Measured Property | Observation Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Persons | Persons who consented to joining Our Future Health, completed a questionnaire, have a good blood sample and genotype array data | 650979 | Count | 01 Apr 2025 |
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08/10/2024
Distribution release date
12/06/2025
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01/05/2021
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01/04/2025
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The Our Future Health Trusted Research Environment (TRE) is a highly secure computing environment, where researchers can access the Our Future Health data they have applied for. The TRE is subject to rules, monitoring, and strict controls to protect the data and participants' privacy.
The Our Future Health TRE has a range of tools available for analysing the data. More information is available here: https://research.ourfuturehealth.org.uk/analysing-the-data/
If you think our TRE will not be able to meet your research needs, for example, if you’ve developed complex software or analytical tools that would be hard to recreate, you can apply to access the data using a different TRE.
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