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+## Fourth data release (Feb 2024)
+## Consolidated release, now including data from both fetuses and neonates
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+## 1.	Cohort 
+•	Neonatal participants: 783 subjects (886 datasets).  
+•	Fetal participants: 273 subjects (297 datasets).
+
+## 2.	MR Imaging data
+•	Native and processed. Structural, DTI, fMRI.
+
+## 3.	Clinical information about pregnancy and birth
+•	Pregnancy: Data include previous obstetric history, pre-pregnancy and antenatal maternal conditions, medication. 
+•	Birth: data include gestational age at birth, birth weight, length, and head circumference, presentation and mode of birth, medication required at delivery, nutrition and feeding, apgar scores at 1 and 5 min of age. For babies that were admitted to the intensive care unit, there are clinical details about their stay.
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+## 4.	Genomics
+•	Saliva-derived DNA sample were genotyped for single-nucleotide polymorphisms and also processed for methylation analysis. 
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+## 5.	Eye-tracking data at 18 months of age
+•	Visual attention metrics
+
+## Upcoming data (pending NDA approval):
+•	Neurodevelopmental outcome at 18 months of age.
+
+
+## HOW TO ACCESS AND DOWNLOAD THE DATA:
+All data are available from the NDA website [NDA website](https://nda.nih.gov/edit_collection.html?id=3955). The NDA is responsible for all data governance. Instructions for how to access and download the data can be found:
+
+[Updated guidelines - download from NDA](https://github.com/BioMedIA/dHCP-release-notes/tree/master/supplementary_files/Guidelines%20downloading%20data%20v3.pdf)
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+
+## Feedback
+We invite colleagues in the field to explore and
+[feedback](https://neurostars.org/tags/developing-hcp) on the value and
+characteristics of the image dataset. The image data have been processed
+using analysis pipelines that are subject to further development.  If you
+use this data or the pipelines please cite the appropriate publications as
+detailed in the [How to cite](cite.html) notes.
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+## Acknowledgments
+
+The research leading to these data has received funding from the European
+Research Council under the European Union Seventh Framework Programme
+(FP/20072013)/ERC Grant Agreement no. 319456. The work was also supported
+by the NIHR Biomedical Research Centres at Guys and St Thomas NHS Trust.
+We are grateful to the families who generously supported this trial. 
+We would like to acknowledge Core support for data acquisition was provided 
+by the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering [WT 203148/Z/16/Z]. We are
+also thankful to the WU-Minn-Oxford Human Connectome Project consortium
+(1U54MH091657-01) for access to their computing resources.
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