Unlocking the potential of big data and AI in medicine: insights from biobanking by Kaya Akyüz, Mónica Cano Abadía, Melanie Goisauf, Michaela Th. Mayrhofer

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The wildlife biobanking of germ cells for in situ and ex situ conservation in Japan by Mayako Fujihara, Miho Inoue-Murayama

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Biobank as a key component of supporting research in phthisiology and infectious diseases by T. V. Umpeleva, D. V. Vakhrusheva, S. N. Skornyakov

“…This review is devoted to biobanking as a key component of modern research in personalized medicine, as well as to the status and prospects for developing this area in phthisiology and infectious diseases combined with tuberculosis.…”
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Sustainable biobanks: a case study for a green global bioethics by G. Samuel, F. Lucivero, A. M. Lucassen

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BioMEL: a translational research biobank of melanocytic lesions and melanoma by Göran Jönsson, Ana Carneiro, Katja Harbst, Christian Ingvar, Teo Helkkula, Gustav Christensen, Karolin Isaksson, Bertil Persson, Åsa Ingvar, Anna Hafström, Viktoria Gaspar, Kari Nielsen

“…Using biomedical data from biobanks and population-based healthcare data, translational research can improve patient care by implementing evidence-based findings. …”
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Biobanking corneal tissues for emergency procedures during COVID-19 era by Mohit Parekh, Stefano Ferrari, Alessandro Ruzza, Pia Leon, Antonella Franch, Davide Camposampiero, Kunal A Gadhvi, Diego Ponzin, Sajjad Ahmad, Vito Romano

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Characterization of APOE Christchurch carriers in 455,306 UK Biobank participants by Karen Y. He, Ekaterina A. Khramtsova, Alfredo Cabrera-Socorro, Yanfei Zhang, Shuwei Li, Brice A. J. Sarver, Bart Smets, Qingqin S. Li, Louis De Muynck, Antonio R. Parrado, Simon Lovestone, Mary Helen Black

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Ethnic disparities in mortality and group-specific risk factors in the UK Biobank by Kara Keun Lee, Emily T. Norris, Lavanya Rishishwar, Andrew B. Conley, Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez, John F. McDonald, I. King Jordan

“…Study participants were sampled from the UK Biobank (UKB), a prospective cohort enrolled between 2006 and 2010. …”
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Body composition, lifestyle, and depression: a prospective study in the UK biobank by Xingyu Lv, Jie Cai, Xiang Li, Xuan Wang, Hao Ma, Yoriko Heianza, Lu Qi, Tao Zhou

“…Methods We included 330,131 participants without depression at baseline in the UK Biobank (mean age, 56.9 years; 53.83% females). The assessment of depression was sourced from health outcomes across self-report, primary care, hospital inpatient data, and death data. …”
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Conservation-focused biobanks: A valuable resource for wildlife DNA forensics by Sílvia Pérez-Espona

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Frailty in COPD: an analysis of prevalence and clinical impact using UK Biobank by Jennifer K Quint, David A McAllister, James Lewsey, Frances S Mair, Peter Hanlon, Barbara I Nicholl, Bhautesh D Jani

“…We assessed the prevalence of frailty in UK Biobank participants with COPD; explored relationships between frailty and forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) and quantified the association between frailty and adverse outcomes.Methods UK Biobank participants (n=3132, recruited 2006–2010) with COPD aged 40–70 years were analysed comparing two frailty measures (frailty phenotype and frailty index) at baseline. …”
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Using short tandem repeat profiling to validate cell lines in biobanks by E. N. Kosobokova, A. A. Malchenkova, N. A. Kalinina, V. S. Kosorukov

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Phenotypic and genetic associations between anhedonia and brain structure in UK Biobank by Xingxing Zhu, Joey Ward, Breda Cullen, Donald M. Lyall, Rona J. Strawbridge, Laura M. Lyall, Daniel J. Smith

“…Here, we investigated how anhedonia and PRS-anhedonia were associated with brain structure within the UK Biobank cohort. Brain measures (including total grey/white matter volumes, subcortical volumes, cortical thickness (CT) and white matter integrity) were analysed using linear mixed models in relation to anhedonia and PRS-anhedonia in 19,592 participants (9225 males; mean age = 62.6 years, SD = 7.44). …”
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EGEA Collection: A Biobank Devoted to Asthma and Asthma-related Phenotypes by Rachel Nadif, Emmanuelle Bouzigon, Nicole Le Moual, Valérie Siroux

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Measurement of liver iron by magnetic resonance imaging in the UK Biobank population. by Andy McKay, Henry R Wilman, Andrea Dennis, Matt Kelly, Michael L Gyngell, Stefan Neubauer, Jimmy D Bell, Rajarshi Banerjee, E Louise Thomas

“…The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of elevated levels of liver iron within the UK Biobank imaging study in a cohort of 9108 individuals. …”
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Design and Protocol for Beijing Hospital Takayasu Arteritis (BeTA) Biobank by Shang Gao, Zhi-Yuan Wu, Yu-Qing Miao, Zhen-Bo Lu, Shu-Ping Tan, Ji-Yang Wang, Cheng-Ran Lu, Zheng-Xi Xu, Peng Li, Yong Lan, Yong-Peng Diao, Zuo-Guan Chen, Yong-Jun Li

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King’s Health Partners’ Prostate Cancer Biobank (KHP PCaBB) by S. R. Saifuddin, W. Devlies, A. Santaolalla, F. Cahill, G. George, D. Enting, S. Rudman, P. Cathcart, B. Challacombe, P. Dasgupta, C. Galustian, A. Chandra, S. Chowdhury, C. Gillett, M. Van Hemelrijck

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Association between circadian physical activity patterns and mortality in the UK Biobank by Michael J. Stein, Hansjörg Baurecht, Anja M. Sedlmeier, Julian Konzok, Patricia Bohmann, Emma Fontvieille, Laia Peruchet-Noray, Jack Bowden, Christine M. Friedenreich, Béatrice Fervers, Pietro Ferrari, Marc J. Gunter, Heinz Freisling, Michael F. Leitzmann, Vivian Viallon, Andrea Weber

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Living biobank-based cancer organoids: prospects and challenges in cancer research by Haixin Li, Hongkun Liu, Kexin Chen

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The effect of network thresholding and weighting on structural brain networks in the UK Biobank by Colin R. Buchanan, Mark E. Bastin, Stuart J. Ritchie, David C. Liewald, James W. Madole, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob, Ian J. Deary, Simon R. Cox

“…In a sample of 3153 generally healthy volunteers from the UK Biobank Imaging Study (aged 44–77 years), we constructed whole-brain structural networks and applied two principled network thresholding approaches (consistency and proportional thresholding). …”
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