Sökning: "Biobanks"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Biobanks.

  1. 1. Biobanks and informed consent : An anthropological contribution to medical ethics

    Författare :Klaus Hoeyer; Paul Martin; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Medical ethics; empirical ethics; social anthropology; policy; informed consent; stored human tissue; etik; Ethics;

    Sammanfattning : Background: 1985 saw the beginnings of a population-based biobank in Västerbotten County, Sweden. In 1999, a start-up genomics company, UmanGenomics, obtained ‘all commercial rights’ to the biobank. The company introduced an ethics policy, which was well received in prestigious journals, focusing on public oversight and informed consent. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Usefulness of archival biobank samples for genetic epidemiologic studies

    Författare :Malin Sjöholm; Malmö Klinisk mikrobiologi; []
    Nyckelord :formailn-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue; biobank; serum; dried blood spots; plasma; archival samples;

    Sammanfattning : Sweden has a long history of maintaining population-based registries and biobanks. This has resulted in large sample collections with long follow-up and large numbers of prospectively occurring disease endpoints providing an extensive resource for genetic research. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Depression : genetic, epigenetic and DNA biobank studies

    Författare :Philippe A Melas; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : Depression is a disease that has an estimated lifetime prevalence of ~15% and a heritability of ~36%. There is support for a heterogeneous etiology of depression, which includes: a) numerous genetic loci, b) various epigenetic contributors, and c) different environmental risk factors. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Predictive Healthcare : Cervical Cancer Screening Risk Stratification and Genetic Disease Markers

    Författare :Nicholas Baltzer; Jan Komorowski; Mark Jit; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Bioinformatics; Cervical Cancer; Screening; Computer Science; Algorithmics; Machine Learning; Genetics; SNPs; Rough Sets; Bioinformatics; Bioinformatik;

    Sammanfattning : The use of Machine Learning is rapidly expanding into previously uncharted waters. In the medicine fields there are vast troves of data available from hospitals, biobanks and registries that now are being explored due to the tremendous advancement in computer science and its related hardware. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Seroepidemiology of sexually transmitted infections of prostate cancer

    Författare :Zoltan Korodi; Malmö Klinisk mikrobiologi; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : Background: There has been substantial progress in epidemiological research on prostate cancer over the last decade. An area of increasing interest is the possible role of sexual activity and history of sexually transmitted infections as a risk factor for prostate cancer. LÄS MER