There is a critical need for extensive collaborative efforts to generate large-scale discovery cohorts of diverse ancestry. Limited diversity in genetics research is a major factor limiting our ability to address important scientific questions. The 1KGP (Sudmant et al., 2015) serves as one of the most widely-used resources in genetics research, but expanding those reference panels is a priority. Here, we provide a selected catalogue of extant and emerging sources of whole-genome sequence data (Table 1 and Supplemental Table S3), to facilitate improved matching of diverse study cohorts to appropriate reference panels. Notably, some sources of non-European data are under-utilized, such as minority groups within the UK Biobank. Although diverse ancestry groups only account for about 5% of this data, that fraction amounts to over 35,000 samples of non-European and admixed ancestry (Bycroft et al., 2018) and yet only 7.3% of publications since 2008 that used this data included any of these diverse samples. Thus, there are opportunities to make better use of these and other existing resources.
