The HEAP project will provide an informatics platform for handling and analysing large amounts of data on environmental exposures and their health effects. The platform will be populated with data from large-population-based cohorts, analysed with hi...
MAT
Maternity cohort...
Description
The Finnish Maternity Cohort (FMC) in Northern Finland Biobank Borealis is a collection of serum samples comprising virtually the entire population of Finnish females, who have been pregnant since 1983. FMC is linkable with population-based health re...
General Design
- Type
- Biobank
- Data collection type
- Retrospective
- Design
- Longitudinal
- Start/End data collection
- 1983 until 2017
- Design paper
- Cancer Registry follow-up for 17 million person-years of a nationwide maternity cohort.
- PID
- MAT
Population
- Countries
- Finland
- Number of participants
- 950000
- Number of participants with samples
- 950000
- Population age groups
- Adolescent (13-17 years), Adult (18+ years)
Organisations
Additional organisations
- University of OuluFinlandhttps://www.oulu.fi
Contributors
- dr. H-ES (Heljä-Marja) SurgelUniversity of Ouluhelja-marja.surcel@oulu.fi
Principal Investigator, Project manager
Networks
Part of networks...
Publications
Funding & Acknowledgements
- Funding
- European Science Infrastructure Services (https://esis.fi/)
- Acknowledgements
- European Science Infrastructure Services (https://esis.fi/)