LIFEGENE

LifeGene aims to combine advances in modern biotechnology with information on individuals' health and lifestyle. There will be a focus on disease etiology and everyday health problems. The open-access resource will provide new information about the causes of diseases that will lead to their prevention, refined diagnostic methods and therapeutic opportunities... A few hundred thousand Swedes will be contacted for collection of information concerning their health, lifestyle and exposures as well as donation of samples. LifeGene will be longitudinal with repeated contacts of study participants. The number of questions that can be asked of the LifeGene resource will be innumerable and only limited by our ability to predict the future... The LifeGene working groups have identified what exposures we can measure and how to measure these within different research areas. Exposures such as diet, physical activity, smoking, prenatal environment, infections, sleep-disorders, socioeconomic and..

Primary location: Solna Sweden