{"entity":{"id":"million-veteran-program","kind":"collection","name":"Million Veteran Program (MVP)","aka":["MVP","VA Million Veteran Program"],"tldr":"A US Department of Veterans Affairs research programme that has enrolled over a million veterans, linking their genes, lifestyle and military exposures to their health records. Its cancer research includes breast and prostate cancer.","summary":"MVP describes itself as a health research programme studying how genes, lifestyles, military experiences and exposures affect health, with over one million veterans enrolled. Its pages read on 4 November 2026 say 25 per cent of participants come from minority racial and ethnic backgrounds, that MVP has the largest cohort of Black participants of any research programme in the world, and that over 100,000 women veterans take part. Among its research areas it lists cancer, with advances named in breast and prostate cancer. Participant data are coded, kept in a secure database for research only, and not entered in medical records or shared with insurers or employers.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"Million Veteran Program (MVP)","url":"https://www.mvp.va.gov/"}],"tags":[],"related":["uk-biobank","all-of-us"],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":["biobanking"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":["The programme's start year and the size of its genotyped or sequenced subset are not stated on the pages read and are left out.","OnCo has no record for the US Department of Veterans Affairs, so the maintainer is named but not linked."],"url":"https://www.mvp.va.gov/","holds":"Genetic, survey and health-record data from over one million US military veterans, over 100,000 of them women and 25 per cent from minority racial and ethnic backgrounds.","license":"Coded research data; available only for research, not entered in medical records or shared with insurers or employers","maintainer":"US Department of Veterans Affairs"},"route":"/collections/million-veteran-program/","neighbours":{"collection":[{"id":"all-of-us","kind":"collection","name":"All of Us Research Program","route":"/collections/all-of-us/"},{"id":"uk-biobank","kind":"collection","name":"UK Biobank","route":"/collections/uk-biobank/"}],"technology":[{"id":"biobanking","kind":"technology","name":"Biobanking and tissue procurement","route":"/technologies/biobanking/"}]}}