Tohoku Medical Megabank Project for future medicine and toxicology

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The Tohoku Medical Megabank Project (TMM) has been launched to accomplish creative reconstruction in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake and ensuing tsunami on March 11, 2011. TMM aims to establish an integrated biobank on the basis of two prospective large-scale cohort studies; a population-based cohort study, which has recruited approximately 84,000 participants, and a birth and three-generation cohort study, which has recruited approximately 73,000 participants including newborns and their parents, siblings, grandparents. Two prospective cohorts of TMM show in combination a highly unique and strategical design. The bio-specimen and personal health records collected through these cohorts are stored in the integrated biobank, which storage both bio-specimens and genome-omics big data generated in-house. TMM will share both information data and samples with the research community to facilitate biomedical research, including toxicology, and development of personalized health care. TMM believes that constructing the integrated biobank by way of large-scale genome cohort studies will be effective in establishing the personalized health care and medicine, and in developing future toxicology.

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1. http://www.megabank.tohoku.ac.jp