Cohort profile: 1958 British birth cohort (National Child Development Study).

By Chris Power, J. Elliott. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2006

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The role of administrative data in the big data revolution in social science research. (2016, background): “In the collection of primary observational data social scientists have placed great value on cohort data, particularly birth cohort data (for example see Connelly and Platt, 2014; Elliott and Shepherd, 2006; Power and Elliott, 2006; Wadsworth et al., 2006).”
De-standardization and gender convergence in work–family life courses in Great Britain: A multi-channel sequence analysis (2015, methodology): “The second cohort used is the National Child Development Study (NCDS, or 1958 birth cohort), which aimed to recruit all babies born during a single week in England, Wales and Scotland in 1958 (n = 17,416, 98.8% of target) (Power & Elliott, 2006).”
Five amino acids in three HLA proteins explain most of the association between MHC and seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (2012, background): “Some WTCCC controls were part of the 1958 British Birth Cohor”
Genome-wide association study identifies five susceptibility loci for glioma (2009, methodology): “For controls, we used Illumina Hap550K-BeadChip genotypes on 1,438 individuals from the British 1958 Birth Cohor”
Data Safe Havens in health research and healthcare (2015, background): “…field of biomedical and health science (e.g. NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre [http://www.hscic. gov.uk], 1958 Birth Cohort (Power and Elliott, 2006), CARTaGENE [www.cartagene.qc.ca/en/researcher-access], dbGaP [www.ncbi.nlm. nih.gov/gap], European Genome-phenome Archive…”
Intelligence in childhood and risk of psychological distress in adulthood: The 1958 National Child Development Survey and the 1970 British Cohort Study (2009, background): “The National Child Development Study (1958 cohort) and the 1970 BritishCohort Study (1970 cohort) each comprise over 17,000 live births in Great Britain between the 3rd and 9th March 1958 and the 5th and 11th April 1970, respectively (Elliott & Shepherd, 2006; Power & Elliott, 2006).”
Teenage career aspirations and adult career attainment: The role of gender, social background and general cognitive ability (2011, background): “The study draws on data collected for the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) (Elliott & Shepherd, 2006) and the 1970 British Cohort Study (BSC70) (Power & Elliott, 2006).”
Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data identifies four new susceptibility loci for colorectal cancer (2008, methodology): “There were 2,236 controls (1,007 males, 1,226 females, three unknown) consisting of 1,438 population controls from the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 1958 birth cohort (58C, also known as the National Child Development Study, which included all births in England, Wales and Scotland during a ”
Genome-wide association study identifies five new breast cancer susceptibility loci (2010, methodology): “Controls for stage 1 were drawn from two sources: 2,930 controls were drawn from the 1958 Birth Cohort (1958BC), a population-based study in the United Kingdom of individuals born in 1 week in 1958 (ref”
Social status, cognitive ability, and educational attainment as predictors of liberal social attitudes and political trust (2010, background): “The National Child Development Study 1958 is a large-scale longitudinal study of the 17,415 individuals who were born in Great Britain in a week inMarch 1958 (Ferri et al., 2003; Power & Elliott, 2006).”