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
Groups
Links
Sortable 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 | ||
| 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 | FHS | https://dsgweb.wustl.edu/PROJECTS/MP1.html | |
| Fenland Study | http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/Research/Studies/Fenland/index.html | ||
| FINRISK | 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/ | |
| Nord-Trøndelag Health study | HUNT | http://www.ntnu.edu/hunt | |
| LifeLines | LifeLines | http://www.lifelines.nl | |
| Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg, Southern Germany | KORA | http://epi.helmholtz-muenchen.de/kora-gen/index_e.php | |
| MORGAM (MOnica Risk, Genetics, Archiving and Monograph) Project | MORGAM | http://www.ktl.fi/morgam/ | |
| Netherlands Twin Registry | http://www.tweelingenregister.org | ||
| National Survey for Health and Development Study | NSHD | http://www.nshd.mrc.ac.uk | |
| Tracking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey | TRAILS | 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 | ||
| Atherosclerotic Disease, Vascular Function, and Genetic Epidemiology | ADVANCE | ||
| Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik Study | AGES | ||
| Amish Heredity and Phenotype Intervention Heart Study | Amish HAPI Heart Study | ||
| Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study | ARIC | ||
| The British Genetics of Hypertension (BRIGHT) Study | BRIGHT (WTCCC-HT) Cases | ||
| WTCCC Coronary Heart Disease cases | CAD_WTCCC | ||
| Cancer Prostate in Sweden | CAPS | ||
| Cohorte Lausannoise | CoLaus | ||
| deCODE genetics sample set | deCODE | ||
| European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition - Obesity Study | EPIC-Obesity | ||
| Erasmus Rucphen Family (EUROSPAN) | ERF | ||
| Framingham Heart Study | FRAM | ||
| Finnish Twin Cohort | FTC | ||
| Health 2000, GENMETS substudy | GENMETS | ||
| German Myocard Infarct Family Study | GerMiFS | ||
| Invecchiare in Chianti/Aging in the Chianti area | InChianti | ||
| MICROS (EUROSPAN) | MICROS | ||
| Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium | MIGen | ||
| Northern Finland Birth Cohorts 1966 | NFBC-1966 | ||
| The Nurses' Health Study | NHS | ||
| Northern Sweden Population Health Study (EUROSPAN) | NSPHS | ||
| Netherlands Twin Register & the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety | NTRNESDA | ||
| Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial | PLCO | ||
| Precocious Coronary Artery Disease (ProCARDIS) | Procardis | ||
| Rotterdam Study | RS | http://www.epib.nl/research/ergo.htm | |
| Nijmegen Bladder Cancer Study and Nijmegen Biomedical Study | RUNMC | ||
| National Institute on Aging (NIA) SardiNIA Study | SardiNIA | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gap/cgi-bin/study.cgi?study_id=phs000338.v1.p1 | |
| Swedish And Singapore Breast Association Consortium | SASBAC | ||
| Studies of Epidemiology and Risk factors in Cancer Heredity / UK Ovarian Cancer Population Study | SEARCH/UKOPS | ||
| Study of Health in Pomerania | SHIP | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_of_Health_in_Pomerania | |
| TwinsUK | TwinsUK | ||
| VIS (EUROSPAN) | VIS | ||
| KORCULA (EUROSPAN) | KORCULA |
