Million Veteran Program: A mega-biobank to study genetic influences on health and disease

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 70, Issue , 2016, Pages 214-223

  Gaziano, John Michael ^a,b   Concato, John ^c,d   Brophy, Mary ^a,e   Fiore, Louis ^a,e   Pyarajan, Saiju ^a   Breeling, James ^a   Whitbourne, Stacey ^a   Deen, Jennifer ^a   Shannon, Colleen ^a   Humphries, Donald ^a   Guarino, Peter ^c,d   Aslan, Mihaela ^c,d   Anderson, Daniel ^c   Lafleur, Rene ^c   Hammond, Timothy ^f   Schaa, Kendra ^f,g   Moser, Jennifer ^f   Huang, Grant ^f   Muralidhar, Sumitra ^f   Przygodzki, Ronald ^f   O'Leary, Timothy J ^f   more..

^a VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Exome sequencing; Genomics; Genotyping; Veterans; Whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILLION VETERAN PROGRAM; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE; SELF REPORT; STEADY STATE; VETERAN; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 84957436835     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2015.09.016     Document Type: Article

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