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. 2012 Sep;3(3):185-9.
doi: 10.1016/j.phrp.2012.07.007.

National Biobank of Korea: Quality control Programs of Collected-human Biospecimens

Jae-Eun Lee  1 , Ji-Hyun Kim, Eun-Jung Hong, Hye Sook Yoo, Hye-Young Nam, Ok Park
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National Biobank of Korea: Quality control Programs of Collected-human Biospecimens

Jae-Eun Lee et al. Osong Public Health Res Perspect. 2012 Sep.

Abstract

Personalized medicine is emerging as a main paradigm for risk prediction, pre-diagnosis, and effective prevention and treatment of disease. A large number of human biospecimens and their clinical data are essential resources for the success of personalized medicine as well as other biomedical research. The National Biobank of Korea (NBK) has collected well-annotated and high quality human biospecimens, and distributes them to the Korean biomedical scientists, through the Korea Biobank Project (KBP). The ultimate goal of NBK activities is to promote biomedical research and public health. As of December- 2011, the NBK has collected various human biospecimens from 525,416 participants including 325,952 Korean populations and 199,464 patients. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the KBP and quality control programs for collection of human biospecimens with high quality of NBK.

Keywords: Korea Biobank Project; National Biobank of Korea; biobank; human biospecimens; quality control.

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