How to share GWAS summary statistics with FinnGen community

These instructions describe how you may share your GWAS summary statistics with the FinnGen community in a FinnGen hosted internal green bucket.

1. Prerequisites

   1. You should have an accepted analysis proposal for the GWAS summary statistics you wish to share with FinnGen community. Note! Only GWAS summary statistics may be shared, other file formats are not supported. With summary statistics we mean output text files with variant-wise summary data formed using case/control groups of >=5 individuals. Files should not contain any individual-level data.

   2. You should have a finngen.fi account.

2. Fill in form to request to share your summary statistics

   1. https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/123817/lomake.html

3. You will receive data upload instructions to the email address you have provided.

   1. Prepare and upload your data yourself according to the instructions. Note! You will not be able to delete the data you have uploaded!

4. Data is stored in FinnGen internal green bucket gs://fg-publication-green.

   1. You can share data URL with your colleague (who must also have a finngen account). Note! The data will be accessible by anyone with a finngen account.

5. Make note of the data URL if there is later need to make data public.

   1. Please see How to publish GWAS summary statistics for more information.

6. If you have any questions or need help with filling in the form or uploading your data, please contact [e-mail]