Introduction
Welcome to the FinnGen Handbook!
The following documentation contains both useful background information, specifics of the FinnGen data, and clear instructions that are meant to help you get the most out of FinnGen data.
How to use FinnGen Handbook
FinnGen Handbook has quickly grown to be an extensive source of information, and it may be sometimes challenging to find the specific information that you are looking for.
The easiest way to navigate in the FinnGen Handbook is to use the search bar in the up-right corner of the page. You can use any type of search terms, for example, specific data file or certain analysis type.
If searching doesn't answer your questions, we recommend trying out GitBook Lens. It's an AI made by GitBook that analyses the handbook based on your questions and attempts to answer them accordingly. Lens has been reported to not answer every possible question truthfully, so using it should be done with caution. It is recommended to try and only ask relatively simple questions. Lens can be found in the search bar.
You can also browse pages by opening the main pages on the left-side menu. The main pages contain several sub-pages as you dive deeper into the FinnGen Handbook.
FinnGen Handbook is meant for everyone
After a one year embargo, the FinnGen research project regularly publishes data releases containing summary statistics and Genome Wide Association Study results, which can be freely used. Additionally, researchers in organizations that have partnered with the FinnGen study can request access to either the newest aggregate results or, when wishing to do their own analyses, access to the FinnGen Sandbox environment.
If you are using publicly available FinnGen data or ready results published by the FinnGen analysis team, you will find Background concepts, FinnGen data specifics, or Working outside of the Sandbox useful. If you are a FinnGen partner organization affiliate and are or will be working on your own analysis inside the FinnGen Sandbox, you might also be interested in reading further into the section Working in the Sandbox.
The first version of the handbook was compiled during the spring/summer of 2021. For the most part, we will highlight the main key structural points of the development of FinnGen and how would you use the data that is available.
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