UK Biobank
Initiatives
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To improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of a wide range of diseases – including cancer, heart diseases, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, eye disorders, depression and forms of dementia.
**Contact:ukbiobank@ukbiobank.ac.uk**
**Access Management Team: access@ukbiobank.ac.uk**
- Start Year
- 2006
- Funding
- UK Biobank is funded primarily by the Wellcome charity and the Medical Research Council (MRC). It has also had funding from the Department of Health, Scottish Government, the Northwest Regional Development Agency, the Welsh Government, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK and Diabetes UK. UK Biobank is supported by the National Health Service (NHS).
- Supplementary Information
- Funding details: https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Funding-UK-Biobank-summary.pdf
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- A detailed follow-up of participants over a 20-year period is envisaged through data linkage to national electronic medical records. Thus, linking to NHS will provide valuable information on health outcomes (eg, mortality, cancer registrations, hospital admissions, primary care data, etc).
- Supplementary Information
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Biobank
Marker Paper
Chua SYL, Thomas D, Allen N, Lotery A, Desai P, Patel P, Muthy Z, Sudlow C, Peto T, Khaw PT, Foster PJ; UK Biobank Eye & Vision Consortium. Cohort profile: design and methods in the eye and vision consortium of UK Biobank. BMJ Open. 2019 Feb 21;9(2):e025077. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025077.
PUBMED 30796124
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 502,543
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Aged between 40-69 years from across UK.
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Availability of access information
On the study website : https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/
Supplementary Information