Wife and husband DNA cohort

This study is part of the collection Scania Metadatabase for Epidemiology (SME)

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Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Håkan Olsson - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine, The Division of Oncology and Pathology

Description

The cohort was recruited among accompanying spouses of cancer patients at the Oncology Clinic at Lund University Hospital. The study will be used as a reference population in genetic studies and in studies on biomarkers. The individuals filled in a questionnaire about their health status and donated a blood sample.

Purpose:

The study will be used as a reference population in genetic studies and in studies on biomarkers.

Subject area

HEALTH (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Medical Genetics, Clinical Medicine, Cancer and Oncology (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

Blood Specimen Collection, Body Weights and Measures, Neoplasms, Biological Markers, DNA, Reproduction, Smoking, blood plasma, Serum, Scania, reference population, EpiHealth_Skåne, genetic studies, EpiHealth

Principal organisation

Lund University

Accessibility status

Access to data through an external actor
Access to data is restricted

Responsible department/unit

Lund University, Faculty of Medicine

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Håkan Olsson - Lund University, Faculty of Medicine, The Division of Oncology and Pathology

Identifiers

SND-ID: EXT 0101

Description

Time period(s) investigated

2007-01-01 — ongoing

Unit of analysis

Individual

Population

The population is based on spouses of cancer patients at the Oncology Clinic at Lund University Hospital.

Time Method

Longitudinal: Cohort

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Purposive

Ethics Review

Lund

Biobank is connected to the study

Yes

Subject area

HEALTH (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Medical Genetics, Clinical Medicine, Cancer and Oncology (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

Contact for questions about the data

Håkan Olsson

Is part of collection at SND

Scania Metadatabase for Epidemiology (SME)

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Broberg K, Höglund M, Gustafsson C, Björk J, Ingvar C, Albin M, Olsson H. Genetic variant of the human homologous recombination-associated gene RMI1 (S455N) impacts the risk of AML/MDS and malignant melanoma. Cancer Lett. 2007 Dec 8;258(1):38-44.

Broberg K, Huynh E, Schläwicke Engström K, Björk J, Albin M, Ingvar C, Olsson H, Höglund M. Association between polymorphisms in RMI1, TOP3A, and BLM and risk of cancer, a case-control study. BMC Cancer. 2009 May 11;9:140.
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