Renewal of Scottish Family Health Study (SFHS) Tissue Bank 2020

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  276033

• Research summary

  Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study (GS:SFHS)

• REC name

  East of Scotland Research Ethics Service REC 1

• REC reference

  20/ES/0021

• Date of REC Opinion

  26 Feb 2020

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  Consented DNA, blood, serum, plasma and urine samples and phenotype and genotype data are being stored in Scottish university laboratories. Some further samples and data from a subset of the original cohort have been added from the STRADL study. The samples are stored in University laboratories in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen. Study data is held securely in University of Edinburgh Medical School datastore at the IGMM.

• Research programme

  The resources are available to academic researchers and commercial organisations internationally for answering relevant research questions subject to the governance of the Generation Scotland Access Committee. Over 300 collaboration proposals have been received, resulting in over 300 scientific publications with many more under way.

• Storage license

  N/A

• RTBTitle

  Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study (GS:SFHS)

• Establishment organisation

  Generation Scotland

• Establishment organisation address

  CGEM, IGC

  University of Edinburgh

  Crewe Rd South, Edinburgh

  EH4 2XU