List of biobanks

A biobank is a physical place which stores biobank specimens. These samples are stored so that researchers can use them in experiments. This page contains a list of biobanks.

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Classification

Biobanks can be classified in several ways. Some examples of how they can be classified is by their controlling entity (government, commercial enterprise, or private research institution), by their geographical location, or by what sorts of samples they collect.

Biobanks may be classified by purpose or design. Disease-oriented biobanks usually have a hospital affiliation through which they collect samples representing a variety of diseases, perhaps to look for biomarkers affiliated with disease.[1] Population-based biobanks need need no particular hospital affiliation because they samples from large numbers of all kinds of people, perhaps to look for biomarkers for disease susceptibility in a general population.[2]

List of biobanks

List of biobanks
biobank affiliation type base founding notes
Autism Genetic Resource Exchange Autism Speaks non-profit North America and Asia
Canadian Biosample Repository University of Alberta non-profit North America
EuroBioBank network non-profit Europe
Cooperative Human Tissue Network network government North America 1987
DeCODE genetics company commercial Europe [3]
Estonian Genome Project University of Tartu non-profit Europe 2000
Generation Scotland NHS Scotland government Europe [4][5]
HUNT Biobank Norwegian University of Science and Technology non-profit Europe
Human Tissue Resource Network Ohio State University non-profit North America 1975 [6]
UK Biobank private institution non-profit Europe

References

  1. ^ Bevilacqua, G.; Bosman, F.; Dassesse, T.; Höfler, H.; Janin, A.; Langer, R.; Larsimont, D.; Morente, M. M. et al. (2010). "The role of the pathologist in tissue banking: European Consensus Expert Group Report". Virchows Archiv 456 (4): 449–454. doi:10.1007/s00428-010-0887-7. PMC 2852521. PMID 20157825. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2852521.  edit
  2. ^ Riegman, P. H. J.; Morente, M. M.; Betsou, F.; De Blasio, P.; Geary, P.; Marble Arch International Working Group on Biobanking for Biomedical Research (2008). "Biobanking for better healthcare". Molecular Oncology 2 (3): 213–222. doi:10.1016/j.molonc.2008.07.004. PMID 19383342.  edit
  3. ^ "From Genes to Drugs". decode.com. deCODE genetics. http://www.decode.com/From-Genes-to-Drugs.php. Retrieved 2008-05-04. 
  4. ^ Smith BH, Campbell H, Blackwood D, et al. (2006). "Generation Scotland: the Scottish Family Health Study; a new resource for researching genes and heritability". BMC Medical Genetics 7: 74. doi:10.1186/1471-2350-7-74. PMC 1592477. PMID 17014726. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1592477. 
  5. ^ Macleod AK, Liewald DC, McGilchrist MM, Morris AD, Kerr SM, Porteous DJ (February 2009). "Some principles and practices of genetic biobanking studies". The European Respiratory Journal 33 (2): 419–25. doi:10.1183/09031936.00043508. PMID 19181915. 
  6. ^ Hewitt, R. E. (2011). "Biobanking: The foundation of personalized medicine". Current Opinion in Oncology 23 (1): 112–119. doi:10.1097/CCO.0b013e32834161b8. PMID 21076300.  edit "Tissue Procurement Shared Resources" was founded in 1975, and that organization became a part of the later-created HTRN

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