GIANT Cohorts and Groups

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Cohorts (listed alphabetically)

Note: this list is incomplete.

• Athero-Express Biobank Studies: http://www.atheroexpress.nl (on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/atheroexpress)
• British 1958 Birth Cohort (B58C; in particular B58C-WTCCC and B58C-T1DGC): http://www.b58cgene.sgul.ac.uk/index.php
• Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS): http://www.chs-nhlbi.org/
• Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (YFS): http://vanha.med.utu.fi/cardio/youngfinnsstudy/
• Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS): http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/cebu
• Corogene: http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/06/02/ije.dyr090.extract
• Diabetes Genetics Initiative (DGI): http://www.broadinstitute.org/diabetes
• Ely Study: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/Research/Studies/ElyStudy/index.html
• EPIC-Norfolk Study: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/Research/Studies/EPIC/index.html
• Estonian Genome Center of University of Tartu (EGCUT): http://www.biobank.ee
• Family Heart Study: https://dsgweb.wustl.edu/PROJECTS/MP1.html
• Fenland Study: http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/Research/Studies/Fenland/index.html
• FINRISK: http://www.ktl.fi/portal/4168
• Finland-United States Investigation of NIDDM Genetics (FUSION): http://fusion.sph.umich.edu/
• Health 2000 (H2000): http://www.terveys2000.fi/indexe.html
• Helsinki Birth Cohort Study (HBCS): http://www.ktl.fi/portal/english/research__people___programs/health_promotion_and_chronic_disease_prevention/units/diabetes_unit/idefix_study/
• HUNT (Nord-Trøndelag Health study): http://www.ntnu.edu/hunt
• LifeLines: http://www.lifelines.nl
• KORA (Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg, Southern Germany): http://epi.helmholtz-muenchen.de/kora-gen/index_e.php
• MORGAM (MOnica Risk, Genetics, Archiving and Monograph) Project: http://www.ktl.fi/morgam/
• Netherlands Twin Registry: http://www.tweelingenregister.org
• NSHD Study: (National Survey for Health and Development) http://www.nshd.mrc.ac.uk
• Orkney Complex Disease Study (ORCADES): http://www.orcades.ed.ac.uk/orcades/index.html
• Prospective Investigation of the Vasculature in Uppsala Seniors (PIVUS): http://www.medsci.uu.se/pivus/pivus.htm
• Swedish Twin Registry: http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=9610&l=en
• TRAILS (Tracking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey): http://www.trails.nl/
• Uppsala Longitudinal Study of Adult Men (ULSAM): http://www2.pubcare.uu.se/ULSAM/index.htm
• Whitehall II Study: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/whitehallII

Table

Long Name	Short Name or Acronym	Link(s)
Athero-Express Biobank Studies		http://www.atheroexpress.nl (on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/atheroexpress)
British 1958 Birth Cohort	(B58C; in particular B58C-WTCCC and B58C-T1DGC)	http://www.b58cgene.sgul.ac.uk/index.php
Cardiovascular Health Study	CHS	http://www.chs-nhlbi.org/
Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study	YFS	http://vanha.med.utu.fi/cardio/youngfinnsstudy/
Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey	CLHNS	http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/cebu
Corogene		http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/06/02/ije.dyr090.extract