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Research ID

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Latest version (v37)

Research title

Bio Bank Japan project

Research overview

Aims: Identify myocardial infarction (MI) susceptibility loci in Japanese
Methods: A Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) for MI was performed using 456,000 SNPs (Illumina Human610-Quad BeadChip and HumanHap550v3 Genotyping BeadChip)
Participants/materials: 1666 MI patients and 3198 controls
URL: https://biobankjp.org/en (opens in a new tab)

Datasets

The list is the one this version published; each dataset's content is shown as it is now.

Cart	Dataset ID	Type of data	Analysis method	Access criteria	Date published
	NHA000001	GWAS for MI	Genotyping by array	Unrestricted-access	2014-09-30

Data provider

Principal investigator: Michiaki Kubo
Affiliation: RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences

Research projects

Name	URL
Tailor-made Medical Treatment Program (Bio Bank Japan: BBJ)	https://biobankjp.org/en (opens in a new tab)

Grants

Name	Title	Project number
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan	Tailor-made Medical Treatment Program (the 3rd phase)	N/A

Related publications

Title	DOI	Dataset ID
A genome-wide association study identifies PLCL2 and AP3D1-DOT1L-SF3A2 as new susceptibility loci for myocardial infarction in Japanese.	https://doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2014.110 (opens in a new tab)	NHA000001