Fig. 4

Consent group combination. In large cohort studies, there are typically multiple consent groups which agree to their data being used for different purposes. University researchers will most often have access to both consent groups and thus the consent groups need to be combined first. In this step, the chromosomes in each consent group are combined i.e. consent group 1 chromosome 1 with consent group 2 chromosome 1 etc. In this example there are only 2 consent groups, but Canary is capable of combining as many as required