Smith, L., Cupid, B.C., Dickie, B.G. et al. (4 more authors) (2015) Establishing the UK DNA Bank for motor neuron disease (MND). BMC Genetics, 16. 84. ISSN 1471-2156
Abstract
In 2003 the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association, together with The Wellcome Trust, funded the creation of a national DNA Bank specific for MND. It was anticipated that the DNA Bank would constitute an important resource to researchers worldwide and significantly increase activity in MND genetic research. The DNA Bank houses over 3000 high quality DNA samples, all of which were donated by people living with MND, family members and non-related controls, accompanied by clinical phenotype data about the patients. Today the primary focus of the UK MND DNA Bank still remains to identify causative and disease modifying factors for this devastating disease.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 Smith et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http:// creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
Keywords: | Motor Neurone Disease (MND); Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS); Biobank |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) The University of Sheffield > Sheffield Teaching Hospitals |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2016 16:28 |
Last Modified: | 27 Aug 2019 13:20 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | BioMed Central |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1186/s12863-015-0236-6 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:93646 |
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