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

Contributors

Networks

Part of networks...

  • 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...

Publications

Funding & Acknowledgements

Funding
European Science Infrastructure Services (https://esis.fi/)
Acknowledgements
European Science Infrastructure Services (https://esis.fi/)