Washington Heights–Inwood Columbia Aging Project
About the dataset
Primary description: Aging and dementia in diverse populations
The Washington Heights-Inwood Columbia Aging Project (WHICAP) examines a large and diverse sample of white, black, and Hispanic participants to identify risk factors and biomarkers for understanding aging and Alzheimer’s disease.
| Study | Washington Heights–Inwood Columbia Aging Project | ||||||||||||||||
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| Study Website | WHICAP | ||||||||||||||||
| Data Descriptor Paper | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38183363/ | ||||||||||||||||
| DUA | https://cumc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6x5rRy14B6vpoqN | ||||||||||||||||
| Country/Region | USA | ||||||||||||||||
| Disease Tag | alzheimers;aging | ||||||||||||||||
| Age (mean ± SD)
(Baseline) |
75.1 ± 6.4 | ||||||||||||||||
| Age Range
(Baseline) |
62-100 | ||||||||||||||||
| % Female | 60.8 | ||||||||||||||||
| CUBIC Project | /cbica/projects/NIAGADS |
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| PI for CUBIC Access Approval | Christos Davatzikos | ||||||||||||||||
| N Subjects | 1019 | ||||||||||||||||
| N MR Sessions | 1336 | ||||||||||||||||
| Diagnoses |
AD
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DLMUSE
(v1.0.7)
(1334/1334 complete) |
/cbica/projects/NIAGADS/WHICAP/Pipelines/WHICAP_DLMUSE_2025/Results/DLMUSE_Volumes.csv
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RAVENS
(DRAMMS-1.4.1)
(1333/1333 complete) |
/cbica/projects/NIAGADS/WHICAP/Pipelines/WHICAP_3.5D_DLICV_MASK_2022/Protocols/RAVENS
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| Non-Imaging Data |
/cbica/projects/NIAGADS/WHICAP/Data
Raw data downloaded from source. https://vmacdata.org/adsp-phc/data/data-dictionary
Data dictionary of raw data downloaded from source. /cbica/home/harmang/for_others/final_combined_istaging_withMUSE.csv
Data consolidated and harmonized in 2026. This study: subset with |
Funding
The Washington Heights-Inwood Community Aging Project (WHICAP) was funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA)