Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization

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Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization is a large-scale biomedical research institute at Tohoku University that builds extensive biobanks and genomic databases to advance personalized medicine and post-disaster health research in Japan.


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instanceOf biobank organization
biomedical research institute
affiliatedWith Tohoku University NERFINISHED
aimsTo advance personalized medicine in Japan
improve regional healthcare in the Tohoku area
support reconstruction of medical care in disaster-affected areas
builds biobanks
clinical databases
genomic databases
integrated omics databases
collaboratesWith Japanese government agencies
domestic universities
international research institutions
collects biospecimens
clinical information
genomic data
lifestyle information
country Japan
focusesOn birth and three-generation cohort
cohort studies
long-term health effects of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
population-based cohort
post-disaster health research
hasAbbreviation ToMMo
hasGoal contribute to disease risk prediction models for the Japanese population
establish a Japanese reference panel for whole-genome variation
hasResearchField biobank science
bioinformatics
epidemiology
genomics
personalized medicine
precision medicine
public health
languageOfWorkOrName Japanese
locatedIn Miyagi Prefecture NERFINISHED
Sendai NERFINISHED
Tohoku University NERFINISHED
Tohoku region
operates large-scale cohort studies in Iwate Prefecture
large-scale cohort studies in Miyagi Prefecture
partOf Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine
provides research resources to academic researchers
research resources to industry
usesTechnology SNP genotyping
high-throughput omics analysis
next-generation sequencing
whole-genome sequencing

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Tohoku University
hasResearchInstitute

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