Linking a population biobank with national health registries—The Estonian experience

Journal of Personalized Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 96-106

  Leitsalu, Liis ^a,b   Alavere, Helene ^a   Tammesoo, Mari Liis ^a   Leego, Erkki ^c   Metspalu, Andres ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c Leego and Partner   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Biobanking; Databases; Electronic health records; Estonian Biobank; Linking; Personalized medicine; Re contacting; Registries

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DATA MINING; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESTONIA; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; POPULATION GENETICS; REGISTER; REVIEW;

EID: 85010365581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20754426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/jpm5020096     Document Type: Review

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