Ollier William, Sprosen Tim, Peakman Tim
Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, The University of Manchester, UK.
Pharmacogenomics. 2005 Sep;6(6):639-46. doi: 10.2217/14622416.6.6.639.
The UK Biobank is a major UK collaborative research project to recruit and follow longitudinally the health of 500,000 volunteers aged between 40-69 years. It will provide important biological samples and environmental exposure data. As such, it will constitute a resource for many future investigations of the separate and combined effects of genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors on human morbidity, mortality and health.
英国生物银行是英国一个重要的合作研究项目,旨在招募并纵向跟踪50万名年龄在40至69岁之间志愿者的健康状况。它将提供重要的生物样本和环境暴露数据。因此,它将成为未来许多关于遗传、环境和生活方式因素对人类发病率、死亡率和健康的单独及综合影响研究的资源。