CARTaGENE biobank

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CARTaGENE is a population-based cohort based on an ongoing and long-term health study of 40,000 men and women in Québec. It is a regional cohort member of the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow's Health (CanPath).^[1] The project's core mandate is to identify the genetic and environmental causes of common chronic diseases affecting the Québecois population, and to develop personalized medicine and public policy initiatives targeting high-risk groups for the public.^[2]

CARTaGENE is under the scientific direction of Sébastien Jacquemont, Ekaterini Kritikou, and Philippe Broët. Based in Montréal, Québec, Canada. It is operated under the infrastructure of the Sainte-Justine Children's Hospital University Health Center and has seen funding from Genome Canada, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Génome Québec^[3] and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) since 2007, among other sources.^[2] The program was initially founded by Professors Claude Laberge and Bartha Knoppers, and developed through two phases of participant recruitment under the direction of Professor Philip Awadalla as Scientific Director of the cohort from 2009 to 2015, who is now the National Scientific Director of the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow's Health (CanPath).^[4][5]