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The Tohoku Medical Megabank Project: Design and Mission

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Kuriyama, Shinichi, Yaegashi, Nobuo, Nagami, Fuji, Arai, Tomohiko, Kawaguchi, Yoshio, Osumi, Noriko, Sakaida, Masaki, Suzuki, Yoichi, Nakayama, Keiko, Hashizume, Hiroaki, Tamiya, Gen, Kawame, Hiroshi, Suzuki, Kichiya, Hozawa, Atsushi, Nakaya, Naoki, Kikuya, Masahiro, Metoki, Hirohito, Tsuji, Ichiro, Fuse, Nobuo, Kiyomoto, Hideyasu, Sugawara, Junichi, Tsuboi, Akito, Egawa, Shinichi, Ito, Kiyoshi, Chida, Koichi, Ishii, Tadashi, Tomita, Hiroaki, Taki, Yasuyuki, Minegishi, Naoko, Ishii, Naoto, Yasuda, Jun, Igarashi, Kazuhiko, Shimizu, Ritsuko, Nagasaki, Masao, Koshiba, Seizo, Kinoshita, Kengo, Ogishima, Soichi, Takai-Igarashi, Takako, Tominaga, Teiji, Tanabe, Osamu, Ohuchi, Noriaki, Shimosegawa, Toru, Kure, Shigeo, Tanaka, Hiroshi, Ito, Sadayoshi, Hitomi, Jiro, Tanno, Kozo, Nakamura, Motoyuki, Ogasawara, Kuniaki, Kobayashi, Seiichiro, Sakata, Kiyomi, Satoh, Mamoru, Shimizu, Atsushi, Sasaki, Makoto, Endo, Ryujin, Sobue, Kenji, Tohoku Medical Megabank Project Study Group, the, Yamamoto, Masayuki·2016·Journal of Epidemiology

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The Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) and resulting tsunami of March 11, 2011 gave rise to devastating damage on the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region. The Tohoku Medical Megabank Project (TMM), which is being conducted by Tohoku University Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo) and Iwate Medical University Iwate Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (IMM), has been launched to realize creative reconstruction and to solve medical problems in the aftermath of this disaster. We started two prospective cohort studies in Miyagi and Iwate Prefectures: a population-based adult cohort study, the TMM Community-Based Cohort Study (TMM CommCohort Study), which will recruit 80 000 participants, and a birth and three-generation cohort study, the TMM Birth and Three-Generation Cohort Study (TMM BirThree Cohort Study), which will recruit 70 000 participants, including fetuses and their parents, siblings, grandparents, and extended family members. The TMM CommCohort Study will recruit participants from 2013 to 2016 and follow them for at least 5 years. The TMM BirThree Cohort Study will recruit participants from 2013 to 2017 and follow them for at least 4 years. For children, the ToMMo Child Health Study, which adopted a cross-sectional design, was also started in November 2012 in Miyagi Prefecture. An integrated biobank will be constructed based on the two prospective cohort studies, and ToMMo and IMM will investigate the chronic medical impacts of the GEJE. The integrated biobank of TMM consists of health and clinical information, biospecimens, and genome and omics data. The biobank aims to establish a firm basis for personalized healthcare and medicine, mainly for diseases aggravated by the GEJE in the two prefectures. Biospecimens and related information in the biobank will be distributed to the research community. TMM itself will also undertake genomic and omics research. The aims of the genomic studies are: 1) to construct an integrated biobank; 2) to return genomic research results to the participants of the cohort studies, which will lead to the implementation of personalized healthcare and medicine in the affected areas in the near future; and 3) to contribute the development of personalized healthcare and medicine worldwide. Through the activities of TMM, we will clarify how to approach prolonged healthcare problems in areas damaged by large-scale disasters and how useful genomic information is for disease prevention.

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Kuriyama, S., Yaegashi, N., Nagami, F., Arai, T., Kawaguchi, Y., Osumi, N., Sakaida, M., Suzuki, Y., Nakayama, K., Hashizume, H., Tamiya, G., Kawame, H., Suzuki, K., Hozawa, A., Nakaya, N., Kikuya, M., Metoki, H., Tsuji, I., Fuse, N., Kiyomoto, H., Sugawara, J., Tsuboi, A., Egawa, S., Ito, K., Chida, K., Ishii, T., Tomita, H., Taki, Y., Minegishi, N., Ishii, N., Yasuda, J., Igarashi, K., Shimizu, R., Nagasaki, M., Koshiba, S., Kinoshita, K., Ogishima, S., Takai-Igarashi, T., Tominaga, T., Tanabe, O., Ohuchi, N., Shimosegawa, T., Kure, S., Tanaka, H., Ito, S., Hitomi, J., Tanno, K., Nakamura, M., Ogasawara, K., Kobayashi, S., Sakata, K., Satoh, M., Shimizu, A., Sasaki, M., Endo, R., Sobue, K., Tohoku Medical Megabank Project Study Group, T., & Yamamoto, M.
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Journal of Epidemiology
Published
2016
Volume
26
Issue
9
Pages
493-511
ISSN
  • 0917-5040 (ISSN-L)
  • 1349-9092
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359
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journal article
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en
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Kuriyama, S., Yaegashi, N., Nagami, F., Arai, T., Kawaguchi, Y., Osumi, N., Sakaida, M., Suzuki, Y., Nakayama, K., Hashizume, H., Tamiya, G., Kawame, H., Suzuki, K., Hozawa, A., Nakaya, N., Kikuya, M., Metoki, H., Tsuji, I., Fuse, N., . . . Yamamoto, M. (2016). The Tohoku Medical Megabank Project: Design and Mission. Journal of Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.je20150268

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