The Mexico City Prospective Study is a collaboration between the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Oxford Population Health. It includes data from over 150,000 Mexican adults who were recruited between 1998 and 2004. Participants provided information about their lifestyles and disease history, had physical measurements recorded, and provided blood samples. A resurvey of 10,000 surviving participants captured how lifestyles, physical and biological measurements, and treatments for disease, had changed over time.
Genetic data were made available to researchers in Mexico on 1 May 2023 thanks to a collaboration with DNAnexus and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Researchers worldwide can now apply to access these data, available exclusively via the secure cloud platform built and managed by DNAnexus, to advance their research into how social, lifestyle, physical, metabolic, and genetic factors influence health outcomes in Mexican adults.
Professor Jesús Alegre-Díaz, Professor of Epidemiology at UNAM and Study Principal Investigator said ‘Extended access to the genetic data collected by the Mexico City Prospective Study will advance medical research in Mexico and help to solve some of the most pressing health challenges faced by the world today. Researchers worldwide now have a unique opportunity to access data from individuals of non-European ancestry. This is a major contribution towards increasing diversity in genetic studies.’
Read the full story on the Nuffield Department of Population Health website.