The UK Biobank sample handling and storage protocol for the collection, processing and archiving of human blood and urine.

By Paul Elliott, T. Peakman. 2008

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Subfields: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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1. Paul Elliott
2. V. Beral
3. Ie-Ming Shih
4. D. R. Cox
5. Amy Berrington de González
6. R. Kurman

Citations in the corpus

• UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age (2015, background): “Multiple aliquots of different sample fractions are stored in UK Biobank’s automated laboratory, allowing for a wide range of future assays [10].”
• Genome-wide genetic data on ~500,000 UK Biobank participants (2017, neutral): “Blood samples were collected from participants on their visit to a UK Biobank assessment centre and the samples are stored at the UK Biobank facility in Stockport, UK [18].”
• Benchmarking functional connectome‐based predictive models for resting‐state fMRI (2019, neutral): “Larger datasets bring increased statistical power (Elliott et al., 2008), and many population-imaging studies use rest-fMRI to relate brain imaging to neuropathologies or other behavior and population phenotypes (Miller et al., 2016; Dubois and Adolphs, 2016).”
• Million Veteran Program: A mega-biobank to study genetic influences on health and disease. (2016, neutral): “A cursory review of large genomic initiatives around the world d such as the UK Biobank [10 e 12], similar efforts at Vanderbilt University [13], the Kaiser Permanente Research Program on Genes, Environment, and Health [14], the China Kadoorie Biobank [15], as well as others d reveal several key…”
• UK Biobank: Current status and what it means for epidemiology (2012, background): “Volunteers who attended an assessment centre gave informed consent and completed questionnaires on their lifestyle, environment and medical history, had a wide range of physical measures performed and had samples of blood, urine and saliva collected [10] (Table 1).”