Combining the strengths of UMIST and

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• Large Population Studies
• Introductory Remarks
• Bill Ollier

Combining the strengths of UMIST and The Victoria
University of Manchester
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• International proliferation of many studies
• Initiation of large longitudinal cohort/ Biobank
  studies

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Genetic epidemiology has come of age and is
rapidly becoming big science
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• Technology is enabling high density SNP
  association studies (630K SNPs) of diseases
• WT CCC
• GAIN
• Systems Biology being applied to Biobanks and
  analysis of genetic, proteomic, metabolomic meta
  data
• Advances in continuous capture of health and
  environmental data

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• Increased International collaboration and
  consortia
• - P3G
• - HUGENET
• - GAIN
• Data and sample sharing
• Harmonisation and standardisation of protocols
  and ontologies
• European funding initiatives for cohort studies