Biobank Standardisation and Harmonisation for Research Excellence in the European Union
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The objective of BioSHaRE-EU is to build upon tools and methods available to achieve solutions for researchers to use pooled data from different cohort and biobank studies. This, in order to obtain the very large sample sizes needed to investigate current questions in multifactorial diseases
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Members
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General Information
- Year created
- 2010
- Types of cohorts
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- Population cohort
- Countries
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- Canada
- Germany
- Italy
- Ireland
- United Kingdom
- Finland
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Setting
- International
- Funding
- European Union
- Criteria of cohort's to be included
- Large biobanks or study cohorts with no specific health context.
- Health topic
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- Environmental health
- Chronic diseases
- Socio-environmental context
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- Air pollution
- Urbanization
Participants
Number of participants
- Total
- 935,227
Age range of the samples
- Minimum age
- 18
Methodology for harmonization and integration
- Strategy of harmonization
- Ex-post
- Data processing methods
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- NA
- Type of infrastructure
- Data are in different locations
- Integrative data analysis
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- Pooled analyses
- Federated analyses
- Software
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- OBiBa (Opal/Mica)
- DataSHIELD
- R / Rmarkdown
- Supplementary information
- A variety of tools and methods are developed in BioSHaRE for retrospective and prospective harmonisation: https://cordis.europa.eu/docs/results/261/261433/final1-final-publishable-summary---update-jan.pdf More information: https://dx.doi.org/10.1089%2Fbio.2015.0124
Number of cohorts
- Total
- 15
- With harmonized data
- 8
- Will more cohorts be harmonized?
- Number of harmonized variables (max.)
- 100
Access
- Availability of metadata
- Availability of individual data