The resources and the results of the COPDGene study will be made available to other investigators in a manner that will allow the broad scientific community to benefit from the work of this project while protecting the privacy and confidentiality of research subjects. The data sharing plan is to provide all datasets (including genotype and phenotype data) to dbGAP (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez/dbgap) as soon as possible after the data is verified to the standards described in the QC section above.
