The Tohoku Medical Megabank Project: Design and mission

Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 493-511

  Kuriyama, Shinichi ^a,b   Yaegashi, Nobuo ^a,b,c   Nagami, Fuji ^a   Arai, Tomohiko ^a   Kawaguchi, Yoshio ^a   Osumi, Noriko ^a,b   Sakaida, Masaki ^a   Suzuki, Yoichi ^a,b   Nakayama, Keiko ^a,b   Hashizume, Hiroaki ^a   Tamiya, Gen ^a   Kawame, Hiroshi ^a,b   Suzuki, Kichiya ^a,b,c   Hozawa, Atsushi ^a,b   Nakaya, Naoki ^a,b   Kikuya, Masahiro ^a,b   Metoki, Hirohito ^a,b   Tsuji, Ichiro ^a,b   Fuse, Nobuo ^a,b,c   Kiyomoto, Hideyasu ^a,b,c   Sugawara, Junichi ^a,b,c   Tsuboi, Akito ^a,c   Egawa, Shinichi ^a,b,c   Ito, Kiyoshi ^a,b,c   Chida, Koichi ^a,b,c   Ishii, Tadashi ^a,b,c   Tomita, Hiroaki ^a,b,c   Taki, Yasuyuki ^a,b   Minegishi, Naoko ^a,b   Ishii, Naoto ^a,b   Yasuda, Jun ^a,b   Igarashi, Kazuhiko ^a,b   Shimizu, Ritsuko ^a,b   Nagasaki, Masao ^a   Koshiba, Seizo ^a   Kinoshita, Kengo ^a   Ogishima, Soichi ^a   Takai Igarashi, Takako ^a   Tominaga, Teiji ^a,b,c   Tanabe, Osamu ^a,b   Ohuchi, Noriaki ^a,b,c   Shimosegawa, Toru ^a,b,c   Kure, Shigeo ^a,b,c   Tanaka, Hiroshi ^a   Ito, Sadayoshi ^a,b,c   Hitomi, Jiro ^d   Tanno, Kozo ^d   Nakamura, Motoyuki ^d   Ogasawara, Kuniaki ^d   Kobayashi, Seiichiro ^d   Sakata, Kiyomi ^d   Satoh, Mamoru ^d   Shimizu, Atsushi ^d   Sasaki, Makoto ^d   Endo, Ryujin ^d   Sobue, Kenji ^d   Yamamoto, Masayuki ^a,b   more..

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biobank; Cohort study; Genomic research; The Great East Japan Earthquake; Tohoku Medical Megabank Project

Indexed keywords

DISASTER; DISASTER MEDICINE; EARTHQUAKE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MOTIVATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TSUNAMI;

DISASTER MEDICINE; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; GOALS; HUMANS; JAPAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84991070369     PISSN: 09175040     EISSN: 13499092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2188/jea.JE20150268     Document Type: Article

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