selection biases would be minimized. Consortia may have full availability of the entire datasets across all their participating teams and can also benefit from the implementation of common, standardized (or at least harmonized) approaches to data collection, definitions, measurements, and analysis [10]. Public repositories are also developed for GWA datasets, in particular those funded by public and not-for-profit funds [14,15]. However, public data availability poses several challenges, e.g. assurance of anonymity and proper use of the deposited information for appropriate scientific purposes.
