Cohort Studies and Biobanks

                  Below is a small sample of cohort studies and biobanks worldwide.

Country Name of Study
International consortium Public Population Project in Genomics (P3G)
Asian Consortium Asian Cohort Consortium
Australia Joondalup Family Health Study: Capturing the value of the genetics revolution for Australia
  Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study
  Western Australian Genome Health Project
Brazil Pelotas Birth Cohorts
Canada CARTaGENE: A Genetic Map of Quebec
China Kadoorie Study of Chronic Disease in China
  Shanghai Women's Health Study
  Shanghai Men's Health Study
Estonia Estonian Genome Project (eesti geenivaramu)
Europe EPIC: European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition
European Union GenomeEUtwin
Finland The Finnish Twin Cohort Study
Germany Danubian Biobank Consortium: Towards Information-based Medicine
Korea KORA-gen
Iceland Icelandic Healthcare Database
India Cohort study of all-cause mortality among tobacco users in Mumbai, India.
Iran The Golestan Cohort Study of Esophageal Cancer
Kenya KEMRI–Wellcome Trust Research Programme
Korea Korean Health and Genome Epidemiology Study (KoHGES)
Japan Biobank Japan
  JPHC Study – Japan Public Health Centre-based prospective Study
  J-MICC Study
Lebanon Urban Health Study
Malaysia The Malaysian Cohort
Mexico Proyecto Coyoacan
New Zealand Dunedin Longitudinal Study
Russia EpiHealth
South Africa Mandela's Children:  Birth to 20 (BT20)
Sweden LifeGene Sweden
  Karolinska Institutet Biobank
  Swedish National Biobank Program
Taiwan Taiwan Biobank [English]
Thailand Thai Cohort Study:  Thai Health-Risk Transition
United Kingdom UK Biobank
  Millenium Cohort Study
  The Million Women Study
  Southampton Women's Survey
  British Doctors’ Study
United States The Framingham Heart Study
  Nurses’ Health Study
  Physicians' Health Study
  Women's Health Initiative
 

 

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