CARTaGENE
Initiatives
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* To develop personalized medicine and public policy initiatives targeting high-risk groups. Public research platform of the CHU Sainte-Justine created to accelerate health research. CARTaGENE consists of both biological samples and health data.
* To provide a scientific platform for the investigation of modifiable environmental and lifestyle factors and the genomic determinants of chronic diseases.
**General information: info@cartagene.qc.ca**
**Information for researchers: For information about requesting access to data and biosamples: access@cartagene.qc.ca**
- Start Year
- 2009
- Funding
- Genome Canada, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and Génome Québec and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer .
- Supplementary Information
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARTaGENE_biobank
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Regular updates of health status will be collected using web-based questionnaires in the coming years. Participants may also be tracked for the next 50 years based on linkage to governmental health administrative databases. The first follow-up was realized in 2017.
Marker Paper
Awadalla P, Boileau C, Payette Y, Idaghdour Y, Goulet JP, Knoppers B, Hamet P, Laberge C, on behalf of the CARTaGENE Project, Cohort profile of the CARTaGENE study: Quebec's population-based biobank for public health and personalized genomics. Int J Epidemiol, 2013; 42:1285-1299.
PUBMED 23071140
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 43,000
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Men and women aged 40–69 years old from Québec
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Availability of access information
On the study website : https://www.cartagene.qc.ca/en/home