Established in 1989 with NIAAA support, COGA is among the most enduring of psychiatric genetics consortia supported by NIH. Consistent with state‐of‐the‐art genetic discovery methods of the time, COGA was initially designed as a family‐based linkage study with deep psychiatric, behavioral and brain function phenotyping. The project initially included data collection across six sites: University of Connecticut (Farmington, CT), SUNY Downstate (Brooklyn, NY), Indiana University (Indianapolis, IN), University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA), Washington University (St Louis, MO), University of California San Diego (CA), with Howard University (Washington, DC) joining the consortium several years after.
