Jerusalem Perinatal Study (JPS)
Initiatives
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The Jerusalem Perinatal Study recorded information on population-based cohorts of live- and stillbirths in 1964–76, and their parents, with active surveillance of infant deaths and birth defects.
*Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.*
- Start Year
- 1964
- End Year
- 2005
- Funding
- Supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health: 1R01 CA080197 (S.H.); 1R01 MH059114 (D.M.); 2K24 MH001699 (D.M.); 1K07 CA090685 (MBT); and from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (S.H., D.M.).
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Data in the Jerusalem Perinatal Study spanned 13 years
Marker Paper
Harlap, S., Davies, A. M., Deutsch, L., Calderon-Margalit, R., Manor, O., Paltiel, O., Tiram, E., Yanetz, R., Perrin, M. C., Terry, M. B., Malaspina, D., & Friedlander, Y. (2007). The Jerusalem Perinatal Study cohort, 1964-2005: methods and a review of the main results. Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology, 21(3), 256–273. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3016.2007.00799.x
PUBMED 17439536
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
- Families
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 92,408
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- The study included all births to Israeli residents of Jerusalem, regardless of place of birth. The legal definition of a birth at that time included pregnancies of 28 weeks or more, live births regardless of weight, and stillbirths weighing at least 1000 g.
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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