Discover MVP data
MVP Enables High Quality Health Research
The Million Veteran Program (MVP) is the nation’s largest genomic biorepository of Veteran data and has one of the world’s most diverse cohorts of any genetic research program. Thanks to our partnership with hundreds of researchers and their collaboration together, MVP data has already led to new findings about conditions such as anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), heart disease, kidney disease, cancer and more.
Data snapshot: MVP by the Numbers
Researchers
600+
Projects
100+
Publications
350+
Data snapshot: A Diverse Cohort of Veterans
Veterans enrolled as of November 2023
1,000,000+
Over 25% of enrollees are from minority racial and ethnic backgrounds
Over 10% of enrollees are women Veterans
Race/Ethnicity*
| 74% | White |
| 18% | Black |
| 8% | Hispanic¹ |
| 4% | Multiracial¹ |
| 2.5% | American Indian/ Alaska Native |
| 1.5% | Asian |
| 0.7% | Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander |
| 0.5% | Other |
Age*
| 3% | 18 to 29 |
| 7% | 30 to 39 |
| 9% | 40 to 49 |
| 18% | 50 to 59 |
| 35% | 60 to 69 |
| 20% | 70 to 79 |
| 7% | 80 to 89 |
| 1% | 90 to 99 |
| <0.01% | 100+ |
*Reflects 1,000,000+ Veteran enrollees
¹Hispanic may be indicated in addition to one of the other categories.
Exploring MVP Data
The following resources are accessible to VA users with a VA NT account to help VA researchers explore MVP data while planning and developing research proposals.
The VA MVP Data Explorer tool enables a researcher to query data based on clinical and other data characteristics to build rough cohorts, estimate sample sizes, and perform power analyses.
VA’s Centralized Interactive Phenomics Resource (CIPHER) is a centralized community for collaborating on the development and use of phenotypes. It serves as a VA-wide knowledge base framework to collect, store, and share phenotype definitions, data mapping, and other metadata used in VA projects and publications.
Summary statistics available on dbGaP
Summary statistics and meta-analysis results for MVP’s Genome-wide Association Study (GWAS) are available via the MVP accession in the Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP). Access individual SNP look-ups or fill out a short application to dbGaP to download full summary statistics here.
View publications from MVP research studies in PubMed.