Managing sensitive phenotypic data and biomaterial in large-scale collaborative psychiatric genetic research projects: Practical considerations

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1180-1185

  Demiroglu, S Y ^a   Skrowny, D ^a   Quade, M ^a   Schwanke, J ^a   Budde, M ^a   Gullatz, V ^a   Reich Erkelenz, D ^a   Jakob, J J ^a   Falkai, P ^a,b   Rienhoff, O ^a   Helbing, K ^a   Heilbronner, U ^a   Schulze, T G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

biobanking; data protection; GWAS; IT infrastructure; pseudonyms; sequencing

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL;

COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOCUMENTATION; GENETICS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC GENETIC RESEARCH; REVIEW;

BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GENETIC RESEARCH; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84870059513     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: 14765578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2012.11     Document Type: Review

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