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 high-throughput technologies such as analysis of microbes with metagenomics and analysis of the effects of the environment on the genome (epigenomics). The HEAP platform will also analyse data from large and population-based cohorts on the health effects of purchased products using consumer receipts, and data from volunteer cohorts that carry sensors for continuous monitoring of environmental exposures.
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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 registers including the Finnish Cancer Registry and the Medical Birth Register. Linkage of FMC data and samples with pathological archives of Finnish Biobanks provides an opportunity to expand the scope of research into interaction of biological and genomic factors in association with various diseases. Serial prediagnostic serum samples and comprehensive data accessible over three generations provide possibilities for unique study settings.
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
- Continents
- Europe
- 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/)