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Biobank

Definition
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A biobank is an organized collection of biological specimens and associated data (often linked to EHRs, surveys, or imaging) stored for research or healthcare use, with governance for consent, access, and recontact.

Topics
Cohorts and databases
Related
All of Us Cohort Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

Why it matters in GWAS

Large biobanks power discovery and polygenic score calibration but introduce selection into participation, geographic bias, and relatedness structure that GWAS methods must model; harmonizing phenotypes across sites is as critical as harmonizing genotypes.

Example usage

"We restricted analyses to unrelated individuals after kinship inference in the national biobank."

All of Us Cohort Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) Phenotype UK Biobank
Related-term network

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Node order. The current term is first. Next come every page linked from Related terms, in the same top-to-bottom order as that list. Then new terms appear in two-hop layers: for each of those direct neighbors (in that same order), their related terms are appended if not already listed. A third pass does the same for two-hop nodes. The walk stops when a fixed maximum number of nodes is reached.

References

  • Zatloukal K, et al. (2011). Biobanks and biorepositories in Europe. Brief Bioinform.
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