Discover MVP data
MVP Enables High Quality Health Research
The Million Veteran Program (MVP) is the nation’s largest 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
800+
Projects
100+
Publications
400+
Data snapshot: A Diverse Cohort of Veterans
Veterans enrolled as of November 2023
1,000,000+
Over 25% of enrollees are from minority racial 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 allow researchers to explore MVP data while planning and developing research proposals. Some may only be accessible to VA users.
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.
This tool is accessible to VA users with a NT account to help explore MVP data while planning and developing research proposals.
The Centralized Interactive Phenomics Resource (CIPHER) is an online knowledge sharing platform that aims to optimize electronic health records (EHR) data for use in research and clinical operations. CIPHER’s standardized, searchable platform is a public resource that optimizes phenotype reproducibility, consistency, and scalability across health systems. Phenotype definitions contributed by MVP investigators can be found by browsing the CIPHER knowledgebase. To learn more about CIPHER, please refer to our manuscript describing the platform.
Summary statistics available on dbGaP
Summary results for many of MVP’s projects are available via the MVP accession phs001672.v11.p1 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.