| UK Biobank | |
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 UK Biobank Co-ordinating and Assessment Centre | |
| Mission statement | "Improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of serious and life-threatening illnesses – including cancer, heart diseases, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, eye disorders, depression and forms of dementia." |
| Commercial? | No |
| Location | Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK |
| Founder | Rory Collins |
| Established | January 2007 |
| Website | www |
UK Biobank is a long-term prospective biobank study in the United Kingdom (UK)[1] that houses de-identified[2] biological samples and health-related data[3] on half a million people. Volunteer participants aged 40-69 were recruited between 2006 and 2010[1] from across Great Britain and consented to share their health data and to be followed for at least 30 years thereafter with the aim to enable scientific discoveries into the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment[3] of disease.
- ^ a b Bahcall, Orli G. (22 October 2018). "UK Biobank — a new era in genomic medicine". Nature Reviews Genetics. pp. 737–737. doi:10.1038/s41576-018-0065-3.
- ^ Watts, Geoff (30 March 2012). "UK Biobank opens its data vaults to researchers". BMJ. 344: e2459. doi:10.1136/bmj.e2459. ISSN 1756-1833.
- ^ a b Sample, Ian (30 November 2023). "UK Biobank and the masses of medical data that became key to genetic research". The Guardian.